Spaceships

Astrochemist Markus Hammonds (aka Invader Xan) has made a nice graphic over on Supernova Condensate showing the relative sizes of a bunch of spacecraft. As you can see, the International Space Station is really huge these days. He has also made another graphic that shows them in comparison to the Enterprise.

Spaceships
A comparison of spaceships CREDIT: Markus Hammonds/Supernova Condensate

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Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Sunday 20th May 2012 (02:09 BST) | 8 Comments | Permalink

Comments: Spaceships

I don't see the Cobra Mk. III (Asp)

Posted by Blob on Monday 21st May 2012 (08:05 UTC)

I should have added great work there.

+ i, of course, assumed the Bird of Prey was cloaked.

Posted by Blob on Monday 21st May 2012 (08:48 UTC)

gravatarActually, the Venturestar attribution should be the X-33, which was a 1/2 size test vehicle of what would become the Venturestar.

Posted by Mike Lorrey on Sunday 27th May 2012 (00:27 UTC)

Skylonâ™s so big because itâ™s intended to be a single stage spaceplane. Unlike all of the others, itâ™s both orbiter and launch vehicle all rolled into one. Which is⦠ambitious. I really hope they can pull it off!

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