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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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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