Fun Facts
- NASA scientist have discovered stars that are cool enough to touch
- Most astronauts who enter space become 2 inches taller
- To our eyes in space the sun would look white not yellow
- An astronaut once threw a boomerang from a space station, even without gravity the boomerang returned to him
- In space astronauts can't tell if their bladders are full so they have been trained to relieve themselves every 2 hours
- The most Astronauts launched by a Nation is the USA. The have sent 334 Astronauts into space
- The longest Spacewalk ever was made by Anatoly Solovyev from Russia who walked for 82 hours and 22 minutes
- The planet with the Longest Days is Venus. Their days last 243 Earth days!
- The largest known star is VY Canis Majoris; a red hypergiant star in the Canis Major constellation, located about 5,000 light-years from Earth.