The World’s Rockets to Scale

universetoday.com ^ | Nancy Atkinson

[SunkenCiv]

Even the tunes are downers.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

Here’s the bigger size of the topic pic, btw:

http://i.imgur.com/c4fUpbl.jpg

[SunkenCiv]

The Buran never had a manned flight, either.

[NorthMountain]

Correct. Buran flew one time, unmanned.

[SunkenCiv]

Not only that, the V2 was the basis for every liquid-fueled space program on Earth, either directly (captured after WWII) or indirectly (help from US or USSR).

[SunkenCiv]

I’d love to have seen any launch, but the really big ones had to be special. As C the L said, they can be heard and seen from a long way off, which puts the anal probe to the idea of a “secret Apollo launch” which was intercepted by aliens on the back side of the Moon, or whatever the tinfoiled meme is.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) nice choice.

[SunkenCiv]

actual and proposed SpaceX big boosters, showing the Falcon 9 (the current one) as well as the Falcon Heavy (used to be called Falcon 9 Heavy) and the Falcon 10 / heavy / XX.

http://www.humansinspace.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Falcon-9-2.jpg

[SunkenCiv]

I think the strap-on boosters for the Energia were liquid-fueled, as opposed to the SRBs used on the Shuttle. Does that ring a bell? I’d look it up, but it’s naptime.

[SunkenCiv]

I reallly mean it now, it's naptime. Here's from the SpaceX website, about the first version of the Falcon Heavy. The next iteration will use the Merlin 2 engine, which will slightly surpass the F1 engine, five of which sent Apollo to the Moon and back.

When Falcon Heavy lifts off later this year, it will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two. With the ability to lift into orbit over 53 metric tons (117,000 lb)--a mass equivalent to a 737 jetliner loaded with passengers, crew, luggage and fuel--Falcon Heavy can lift more than twice the payload of the next closest operational vehicle, the Delta IV Heavy, at one-third the cost. Falcon Heavy draws upon the proven heritage and reliability of Falcon 9. Its first stage is composed of three Falcon 9 nine-engine cores whose 27 Merlin engines together generate nearly 4 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft operating simultaneously. Only the Saturn V moon rocket, last flown in 1973, delivered more payload to orbit. Falcon Heavy was designed from the outset to carry humans into space and restores the possibility of flying missions with crew to the Moon or Mars. *

[keat]

That first one was a tough catch.

[RandallFlagg]

Bookmarking

[Bon of Babble]

Thanks for posting that. My late dad worked on the space program and loved everything to do with rocketry.

We lived close enough to a rocket testing facility that we could hear - and feel the rumble through the ground even though we were miles away.

The power of those rockets was incredible.

[Bon of Babble]

Here are two very very brave and heroic astro-dogs, Strelka and Belka:

Both survived space, flight, Thank God, many Soviet dogs did not.

[Lurker]

Had one. Loved it.

What fun those things were.

[dayglored]

> The ultimate launch video in my opinion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HcnmthntUo

I'll agree with that!!!!

[cripplecreek]

I just love to sit and watch that one full screen. The music is perfect.

[central_va]

So where is the V-2?

[abishai]

That first one is Eagle 5, right?

[rawcatslyentist]

Into the Void 7:06