Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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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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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
12
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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