It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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.
147
There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
15
If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
18
Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
13
If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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