The first man to step foot on the moon was Neil Armstrong.
Truth! He walked on the moon in 1969.
There is a planet that is made out of diamonds.
Truth! The planet is called 55 Cancri e and is located in the constellation Cancer the crab. Its surface is 3900 degrees and it is 2x the size of earth.
The International Space Station circles Earth once every 92 minutes.
Truth! The speed of the ISS as it orbits Earth is roughly 17,150 miles per hour – that's 5 miles a second!
Jupiter has three moons.
Lie! It actually has 79 moons including the largest moon of any planet in our solar system.
Space is noisy.
Lie! Space is actually silent. Sound waves need something to travel through, and since there's no air in space, sounds waves disappear into silence.
A Martian day is the same length as a day on Earth.
Lie! The Martian day is 24 hours 39 min. and 35 seconds long. There are 687 Martian days in a Martian year!
A full NASA space suit costs 1 million dollars.
Lie! It actually costs 12 million dollars!
The Mars rover Perseverance was named by a 7th grader.
Truth! In a NASA contest, a 7th grader's essay was picked out of 2800 entries to name the rover Perseverance.
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