Space Trivia

• Sputnik was only 23” in diameter and weighed about 184 pounds.

• 99% of our solar system’s mass is the sun.

• The 15-minute flight of the Mercury spacecraft, Liberty Bell 7, reached an altitude of 118 miles.

• Apollo astronauts’ footprints will be on the Moon for at least 100 million years.

• One day on the planet Venus is equivalent to 243 Earth days.

• The 1967 launch of the Saturn V rocket was the first super heavy-lift rocket in space.