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 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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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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