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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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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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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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