8 Days — October 05, 2017

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How long you’ll take to travel to outer space...

If you were going upwards in a car at 100km/h. Can’t defy gravity? Explore the cosmos via Discovery

Channel’s Space Week — a week-long programming centered on space, science, and technology —

which airs in conjunction with World Space Week.

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600 MIL

$500 to $

How much it would cost former NASA

scientist Dr. Bidushi Bhattacharya

to build palm-sized satellites. The

founder of Bhattacharya Space

Enterprise, a space tech company

based in Singapore’s start-up hotspot

LaunchPad@ One North, said this year

she hopes to bring the price down to

$150 so she can start selling them.

Space Week 2017 is on Oct 2 to 6 on Discovery Channel (Starhub Ch 422 and Singtel Ch 202), 9pm.

US$20mil (S$27mil) How much the first space tourist paid in 2001 to go to space. American

engineer and millionaire Dennis Tito paid an amount equivalent to around 20,000 iPhone Xs to spend about eight days

on a visiting mission to the International Space Station. How’s that for an out-of-this-world holiday?

20.9 BILLION KM

Distance that the Voyager 1, the furthest man-

made object from earth, has travelled at press

time. The space probe launched by NASA in 1977

also carries phonograph records containing

sounds and images of life and culture on Earth,

intended for aliens or future humans, and is

expected to stop sending data back in 2025.

No. of years until total solar eclipses would cease to be,

according to NASA. After this time, the moon would have

moved far enough away from Earth so that it becomes

too small to cover the sun.

US$936.66M (S$1.26BIL)

How much the highest

grossing space movie,

Star Wars: The Force

Awakens, has made

to date. The 2015 film

is tailed by 2009’s

Avatar, which raked in

US$760.5mil.

1 km²

The size of a ‘space

billboard’ that was

proposed to be launched

into low orbit in 1993 by

an American marketing

company. It would have

been roughly the same

size and brightness as

the moon. The project

was never realised due

to insufficient funding

and the possibility

of bombardment by

space debris.

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