The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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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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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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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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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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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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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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