6,164 miles per hour

Maximum speed is 1.6km (one mile) per hour loaded, about 3.2 km (2 miles) per hour unloaded. Launch Pad to VAB trip time with the Mobile Launch Platform is about 5 hours. The crawler burns 568 liters (150 gallons) of diesel oil per mile.

SpaceX doesn’t need the old launch platform or the giant “crawler” transporter that carried NASA vehicles to the pad from their assembly building. Instead, the company built a processing hangar at the base of the pad’s southern perimeter. SpaceX has begun dismantling the structure./span>

160 million horsepower

The private space company says the rocket, called Falcon Heavy, is the most powerful rocket in use today. It is not, however, bigger or more powerful than the mighty Saturn V that was used to launch the Apollo astronauts to the moon in the ’60s and ’70s and then to launch the Skylab space station in 1973./span>

SLS

Even with the advent of commercial rockets, the Saturn V remains the tallest and most powerful rocket ever, and the only one thus far to help carry humans beyond Earth’s orbit. The last Saturn V was used to launch Skylab, America’s first space station, on May 14, 1973./span>

140 decibels and up can quickly cause irreversible ear damage. One of the loudest sounds ever recorded was NASA’s Saturn V rocket, which registered 204 decibels./span>

As far as I’m aware, the Perseus galaxy cluster is the current record holder for the loudest sound discovered in the Universe. Generating sound requires two conditions. First, there must be a medium that the sound waves can travel through, like air or some other gas./span>

20 loudest tracks of all time

• health.
• Music – AC/DC.
• Music – Jesus and Mary Chain.
• MY BLOODY VALENTINE – 1992.
• MTV Video Music Awards – Las Vegas – Arrivals. Mastodon, ‘Blood And Thunder’.
• Oasis. Oasis, ‘My Big Mouth’. “
• Shellac – Steve Albini. Big Black, ‘Kerosene’.
• LIVE AID PHILADELPHIA 1985. Black Sabbath, ‘Iron Man’.

The brain creates noise to fill the silence, and we hear this as tinnitus. Perhaps only someone with profound deafness can achieve this level of silence, so paradoxically loud. I have it easy, and in fact kind of like my tinnitus: it changes pitch from time to time, an ethereal deep outer space keening./span>

Irish teacher Annalisa Flanagan holds the world’s loudest shouting record with 121 decibels (dB), but there was no previous singing record. The lively Bulgarian from the southern city of Plovdiv faced a series of tough requirements./span>

Annalisa Wray