Rockets Galore

Here’s a really awesome poster that someone is putting together on Etsy of all modern rocketry (1958 to now). It’s pretty amazing to see where the really modern rockets end up on here. This doesn’t include some of the aircraft-based launch vehicles (like the Pegasus XL rocket that launched NuSTAR), but they’d be pretty tiny.

Originally came across my feed via UniverseToday.

 

A graphics of all rockets that have flown, shown to scale. Credit and copyright: Tyler Skrabek

This is, of course, dwarfed by the Sci-Fi version of this poster by Dirk Loechel (which you can buy here and I’ved included for comparison below). I smell a mashup that someone needs to do…