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 sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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