If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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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.
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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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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