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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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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