If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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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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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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