An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
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