"Falcon Heavy will carry more payload to orbit or escape
velocity than any vehicle in history, apart from the Saturn V moon
rocket. This opens a new world of capability for both government
and commercial space missions." Source: SpaceX President
and CEO Elon Musk, announcing plans for the new rocket.
Either of the two points on the earth's surface where the
magnetic meridians converge. They are not aligned with the
geographical poles, but shift and do not lie exactly opposite of
the other.
SpaceX Tuesday announced it was planning one of the biggest,
most powerful rockets ever designed. That set us thinking about how
the whole rocket thing got started.
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