the international space station on friday a few days before russia marks the 60th anniversary of euro guarin becoming the 1st person in space constantine or scott is following the latest mission. well for those who are not involved in the space program itself this is arguably the best moment to see the rocket up close when they transfer it from an assembly hangar to the launch pad and you know i mean wow just look how look how big it is and you know i'm going to tell you something that i watched this on t.v. many times but this is absolutely different when you see something like this in person by the way the sawyers rocket is 50 meters long and it weighs over 300 tons and of course it takes a base to retrain even to haul it they move in slowly and carefully because as you can see we can move along in more alaska pop with it there's no need for haste at this moment because it's important not to disrupt the a sample rocket just days before liftoff the reason why the soyuz rocket is so big because it needs a lot of fuel to overcome gravity and that's what a space rocket basically is is just a m