An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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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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