The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
147
NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
7
A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
5
An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
9
It 'snows' metal on Venus.
13
If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
18
MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
18