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Model Type Length Diameter Weight Year introduced Year discontinued LZ 129 Hindenburg: Rigid airship: 245 m (803 ft 10 in) [13] 41.2 m (135 ft 2 in)
Largest Olmec head, almost 50 tons. Transported 37 to 62 miles (100 km). [49] Ħaġar Qim, one of the Megalithic Temples of Malta. Its largest stone weighs 57 tons and measures approximately 19 feet (5.8 m) long by 9 feet (2.7 m) tall by 2 feet (0.61 m) thick. [61] The Maltese temples are the oldest free-standing structures on Earth. [62]
U.S. space station; largest station orbited in one launch: LEO: Deorbited 1979: 1973–1979 Apollo 16 CSM+LM: 52,759 kg (116,314 lb) Heaviest spacecraft sent to lunar orbit. First mission to land in Lunar Highlands. Command module is on display in Alabama: Moon: Retired: 1972 Apollo 12 CSM+LM: 49,915 kg (110,044 lb) LEM landed at Sinus Medii a ...
Image credits: Green____cat PDSA shared some very relevant information about Alaskan Malamutes and Great Danes, two well-known giant dog breeds. Alaskan Malamutes, originally bred to pull sleds ...
Overall, she is generally considered the largest self-propelled ship ever built. [6] [7] In 2013 her overall length was surpassed by 30 m by the floating liquefied natural gas installation Shell Prelude , a monohull barge design 488 m (1,601 ft) long and 600,000 tonnes displacement. Seawise Giant's engines were powered by Ljungström turbines.
Nasa is flying the fastest human-made object ever made closer to the Sun than anything has ever been before. ... The sun’s warming rays make life possible on Earth. But severe solar storms can ...
“In fact, this is one of the closest approaches by a known near-Earth object ever recorded.” Discovered Saturday, the asteroid known as 2023 BU is believed to be between 11 feet (3.5 meters ...
Prototype heavy-lift helicopter, largest rotor at 39.6 m Mil Mi-6: 5 June 1957: 44 t: 926 Heavy transport helicopter, 35 m rotor Mil V-12 or Mi-12 10 July 1968: 105 t: 2 Largest prototype helicopter, 2 × 35 m rotors Mil Mi-26: 14 December 1977: 56 t: 316 Heaviest serial production helicopter Fairey Rotodyne: 6 November 1957: 15 t 1 Largest ...