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It was a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m), roughly 3,000 pound [202] purported "petrified man", uncovered on October 16 1869 by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. Unknown Israel: 297 cm 9 ft 9 in Goliath: Champion soldier of the Philistine army from Gath. Recorded by the prophet Samuel as being 6 cubits 1 span tall in 1st Samuel 17:4. [5]
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin[ a][ b] (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961, with his flight taking 108 minutes.
Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. (born November 22, 1942) is an American aerospace engineer, retired United States Air Force (USAF) officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, in which capacity he became the first African American to go to space. [ 1][ 2][ a] While assigned to NASA, he remained a USAF officer rising to the rank of colonel.
Claude Nicollier, joint 277th and first Swiss to go into space. Mae Jemison, joint 280th person and first African American woman to go into space. Susan Helms, joint 286th person in space and first woman to serve on board the ISS. Yuri Malenchenko, joint 309th person in space and first to marry in space.
The record for most time in space is held by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, who has spent 1080.082 days in space over five missions and is currently in space onboard Soyuz MS-24/25's one year long-duration mission on ISS. If this mission lasts 300–365 days, Kononenko will have spent a total of 1,036-1,101 days in space.
Sky Tower. / 36.848472°S 174.762306°E / -36.848472; 174.762306. The Sky Tower is a telecommunications and observation tower in Auckland, New Zealand. Located at the corner of Victoria and Federal Streets within the city's CBD, it is 328 metres (1,076 ft) tall, as measured from ground level to the top of the mast, [ 4] making it the ...
The Kármán line (or von Kármán line / vɒn ˈkɑːrmɑːn /) [ 2] is a conventional definition of the edge of space. It is not universally accepted. The international record-keeping body FAI (Fédération aéronautique internationale) defines the Kármán line at an altitude of 100 kilometres (54 nautical miles; 62 miles; 330,000 feet ...
The S-II was 81.6 feet (24.87 m) tall with a diameter of 33 feet (10 m), identical to the S-IC, [61] [62] and thus was the largest cryogenic stage until the launch of the Space Shuttle in 1981. The S-II had a dry mass of about 80,000 pounds (36,000 kg); when fully fueled, it weighed 1,060,000 pounds (480,000 kg).