
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.