What is the name of the biggest rocket and how big is it?
The biggest rocket ever *designed* was the Sea Dragon, and it would have weighed 20,000 tons! However, the project did not reach completion. The largest rockets we have serve as vehicles which are used to launch projects to space. The Saturn V, which was used to get Apollo to the moon, was enormous too–3000 tons. I am not sure if that was the absolute biggest rocket, but it’s the biggest one I’ve seen! SCIENTIST: Barbara Thompson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center SATELLITE DRAG QUESTION: What is a satellite drag? Beers Street Middle School, Hazlet, NJ ANSWER: What is a satellite drag? This term refers to the resistance, or drag, on the satellite of the atmosphere it is flying through. The atmospheric density changes with height above the Earth’s surface, and with time, just as our ‘weather’ at the surface has highs and lows. We humans can’t feel this, but imagine running along a beach, first through the air, and then through the water. We can certainly feel the difference in resistanc
