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WHICH IS THE WORLD'S BIGGEST ROCKET ? WEIGHTEST ROCKET? SMALLEST ROCKET? WHO GO'T THE FRIST NOBEL PRIZE? SMALLEST FISH EVEN ?

1) Largest and weightest rocket in the world

Saturn V rockets (the moon rockets) were launched between 1967 and 1973, yet to this day the Saturn V remains the largest rocket ever launched.
Specifications included 363 feet length, A diameter of about 33 feet, a mass of about 6,699,000, gross weight of nearly 7 million pounds, payload weight about 250,000 pounds, and powered by 5 steerable rocket motors.

2) The smallest satellite launch rocket was launched from an aircraft.

The Pegasus was first launched on April 5, 1990, designed by an American industry and the United States Air force.

It was solely created to allow cheaper satellite launches into space. The Pegasus was a three-stage booster, which measured 15 meters or 50.85 feet long.
Pegasus has now been succeeded by an operational Pegasus XL version. The original Pegasus, first launched in 1990, was air-launched from an aircraft jet called Stargazer.

3) First Nobel Prize-Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen received the first Physics Prize for his discovery of X-rays.

4)The world's smallest fish is Paedocypris progenetica from Indonesia, with mature females measuring 7.9 mm (0.31 in)


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