An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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