Funny Facts » space http://funnyfact.com Welcome To A World Of Oddities Funny Facts And Insane Trivia Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:35:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 International Space Station Orbits the Earth how many times per day http://funnyfact.com/international-space-station-orbits-the-earth-how-many-times-per-day/ http://funnyfact.com/international-space-station-orbits-the-earth-how-many-times-per-day/#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:25:45 +0000 admin http://funnyfact.com/?p=3296

The International Space Station makes an average of 15.7 orbits per day around the earth.

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The Jalapeno was the first pepper to be taken into space.

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Astronaut Eugene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972.

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The 1st man made object to reach the moon was Luna 2, an unmanned Soviet spacecraft that crashed onto the lunar surface in September 1959.

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