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    Gene Cernan
    Gene Cernan
    Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
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    Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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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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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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    There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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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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