Portal:Spaceflight/Did you know/April 2009


 * ... that the Saturn V rocket which carried astronauts to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty Boeing 747 jumbo jets?
 * ... that astronauts can't burp in space? A burp would need gravity to separate the liquid from the gas in their stomach.
 * ... that a total of 5,000,000,000,000 bits of scientific data were returned to Earth by both Voyager spacecraft after the completion of the Neptune encounter? This represents enough bits to encode more than 6,000 complete sets of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
 * ... that the energy released by three of Rocketdyne's Space Shuttle Main Engines is equivalent to the output of 37 Hoover Dams?