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Interesting Fact - Money

According to the Royal Mail in the UK, a letter to Mars would require 18,416 first-class stamps.

(Royal Mail contacted NASA after 5-year-old Oliver Giddings asked the Royal Mail how much it would cost to post a letter to the red planet. The answer came back with a cost of £11,602.25  US$18,003.40.

Of course Royal Mail then added the £2.25 (US$3.40) to send the letter from Britain to NASA in Florida.)

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