A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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