Things You Thought You Knew - Timeline of the Universe
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Aol Kennet, It's Not Like a Hurricane
When he was nine years old, Mark Watney decided to try and launch a rocket into the eye of a hurricane. He thought it would be impossible but then realised that hurricanes can rip rockets apart with 100mph winds. The atmosphere on mars is only one hundredth as strong as earth's so there isn't much air for such an ambitious mission. But mark watney still managed to take off from Cape Canaveral in his first ever space-launch attempt.
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