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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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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