Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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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.
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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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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer 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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