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That superlative goes to the V-2 rocket used by Germany in missile attacks against Allied cities as a last-ditch effort in the final years of World War II.
And by August 1957, the Soviet's successfully tested the first intercontinental ballistic missile, the R-7, the same rocket that would be used to launch Sputnik two months later.
It's going to be huge!" (Laughter) We sat back, and we waited for the rocket ship to blast off.
How can we land a large rover while still keeping rocket fuel away from the Martian soil?
And that's only if we launch on a very specific day, at a very specific time, once every two years, when Mars and the Earth are aligned just so, so the distance that the rocket would have to travel will be the shortest.
And we don't at the moment have a rocket big enough to get there anyway.
We once had that rocket, the Saturn V. A couple of Saturn Vs would have gotten us there.
It was the most magnificent machine ever built by humans, and it was the rocket that took us to the Moon.
The biggest rocket we have now is only half big enough to get us anything to Mars.
But frankly, I don't think they're going to bother in 2035 to send a rocket to Mars, because we will already be there.
That is SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, lifting six tons of supplies to the International Space Station. 10 years ago, SpaceX had not launched anything, or fired a rocket to anywhere.
So I think it's a pretty good bet that the person who is revolutionizing the automobile industry in less than 10 years and the person who created an entire rocket company in less than 10 years will get us to Mars by 2027.
It wasn't rocket science.
But they excelled at covering ground, and in a remarkable diaspora surpassing even the dinosaurs' record of territorial conquest, they dispersed across the planet, ravishing every ecosystem they encountered, along the way, inventing culture and metalworking and painting and dance and music and science and rocket ships that would eventually take 12 particularly excellent apes to the surface of the Moon.
Now, the standard story is that computers descend from military technology, since many of the early computers were designed specifically to crack wartime codes or calculate rocket trajectories.
It later turned out to be a Norwegian rocket collecting data about the northern lights.
Imagine those trends, those forces, with a booster rocket of this CRISPR technology that is so powerful and so ubiquitous.
The cause of that crash, it turned out, was an inexpensive rubber O-ring in the booster rocket that had frozen on the launchpad the night before and failed catastrophically moments after takeoff.
That led me to building a laser and a computer and model rockets, and that led me to making rocket fuel in my bedroom.
Well, tell that to any pediatric cancer parent that's ever taken an exam glove and blown it up into a balloon, or transformed a syringe into a rocket ship, or let their child ride their IV pole through the hospital halls like it was a race car.
EM: So this is one of our rocket boosters coming back from very high and fast in space.
EM: Yeah, so we landed the rocket booster and then prepped it for flight again and flew it again, so it's the first reflight of an orbital booster where that reflight is relevant.
CA: And you've designed this outrageous rocket to do it.
CA: Four times the thrust of the biggest rocket humanity ever created before.
People walking into this rocket.
This is from a group called Zipline, a cool company, and they literally are rocket scientists.
And that's not rocket science.
And we all feel that way when we get into that vehicle ans strap into those million pounds of rocket fuel and go up to space.
You've got to get it up there in a rocket.
Calvin Bolster: Well, Ed, this problem concerns the Navy's Viking rocket.
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