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 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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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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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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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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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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