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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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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