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What other materials are used in planes (e.g seats, cabin, etc.)?
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Do other planets in our system have life like Earth?
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What happens to the particles of unused spacecrafts or broken pieces left in space?
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What is a fuselage on a plane?
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Has a chimpanzee ever flown into space?
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How does Cygnus reach the ISS, does any one control it from Earth?
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Why does the airplane have an aluminum body? Why not steel?
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Did Wilbur and Orville Wright build a wood plane or was it made out of a different type of material?
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Why was the rocket invented?
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What the different between subsonic and supersonic aircraft in term of material used?
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