An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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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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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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