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    Gene Cernan
    Gene Cernan
    Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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    Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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    In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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    Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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    In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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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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