World Biggest Things in Space and Time

 World Biggest Things in Space Facts 

1. International Space Station

• At approximately 356 feet by 240 feet 

• International space station ISS is larger than a soccer field.

• Weight of 450 tons (that's just shy of 900,000 pounds) 

• ISS easily beats the Russian Mir and Skylab as the largest space station.

• The station was not launched immediately but built as pressurized modules that were assembled and ended in 2011. 

• Its have solar panels for power and trusses for structural support.

2. Saturn V

• 6 million pound Saturn V rocket family that NASA uses to launch 13 missions from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

• Highest, heaviest and most powerful rocket ever sent to a low orbit around the Earth

• Saturn V design was also used to send astronauts far beyond the orbit. 

• NASA needed Saturn V rockets to send men to the moon and to launch Skylab. Used between 1967 and 1973

• Rockets were 363 feet long and could carry 310,000 pounds to a low orbit around the earth.

3. MIR

• The first space station from a country

• Mir space station was built by the Soviet Union in 1986, the first with a modular design. 

• Weight of 309,000 pounds and a total size of 108 feet by 101 feet, 

• The six-module construction of the MIR made it the largest ship in space at the time - it defeated the American Skylab. 

• Mir was eventually overshadowed by the ISS but never lived that day because it was destroyed upon re-entering the Earth's atmosphere in 2001.

4. Hubble Space Telescope

• The Hubble Space Telescope is the largest since 1990. 

• After more than 1.3 million observations since its launch

• Hubble weighs around 27,000 pounds (about the size of two adult African elephants - and is about 43.5 feet tall, the length of a large school bus.) 

• Sent to space with the Kennedy Space Center's Space Shuttle Discovery

• The target accuracy of .007 arc seconds is about the same as a laser beam on Franklin D. Roosevelt's head shines a dime about 200 miles away.

5. Space Laboratory

• The first. Skylab, orbiting the Earth from 1973 to 1979, shunned £ 170,000. 

• Astronauts visit the lab for a maximum of 84 consecutive days and dock at the station with a workshop and an observatory for solar energy. 

• Skylab's orbit was expired before the nine-year life expectancy, NASA lacked a plan to bring the station back to Earth. Instead, it crashed, with most of the station landing in the Indian Ocean, but some debris hit populated areas in Western Australia

From - 'Howk Wings'