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 earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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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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