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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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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