The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
13
It 'snows' metal on Venus.
13
Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
100
The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
163
The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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