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 temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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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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