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10 Places That Bring Space Down to Earth

From trees grown from space-seeds to a wheel of cheese that's been to orbit and back, slices of space are everywhere.

While space technically starts 62 miles above the Earth’s surface, there’s many places you can get a taste for space without ever leaving the atmosphere.

From taking a walk from the sun to Pluto in a fishing village in Scotland, to mooning over a practice space rover named Grover in Arizona, these places will take you out of this world, right here on earth. In some cases, a slice of space has come to us: From meteorites and moon rocks to space-seed grown trees and wheels of orbited cheese. 

Next time you want to get a glimpse of space, you don’t have to look toward the stars. Instead, check out these 10 places that bring space down to Earth.