Spacecraft & Rockets
Explore 21 rockets, spacecraft, space stations & probes — from Saturn V to Starship
Rockets & Launch Vehicles
The machines that fight gravity — ranked by liftoff thrust
Starship
SpaceX's fully reusable two-stage giant: 121 m tall with about 74,000 kN of thrust,…
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Space Launch System (SLS)
NASA's Moon rocket for Artemis: 98 m tall, 39,100 kN at liftoff — more…
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Saturn V
NASA's 110.6 m Moon rocket launched every Apollo lunar mission and Skylab, sending 140,000…
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Falcon Heavy
SpaceX's triple-core heavy lifter: 27 engines, about 22,800 kN of thrust, and up to…
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Ariane 6
Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, flying since July 2024: two or four boosters, up to…
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New Glenn
Blue Origin's 98 m partially reusable heavy rocket reached orbit on its January 2025…
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Long March 5
China's most powerful operational rocket lifts 25,000 kg to low Earth orbit and launched…
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Falcon 9
SpaceX's partially reusable workhorse rocket: 70 m tall, 22,800 kg to low Earth orbit,…
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Soyuz-2
Modernized descendant of the world's first ICBM, flying since 2004: 46 m tall, 8,200…
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Electron
Rocket Lab's 18 m carbon-fiber small-satellite launcher lifts 300 kg to orbit with 3D-printed,…
ExploreCrewed Spacecraft
Capsules that carry humans to orbit and beyond
Apollo Command and Service Module
The three-man spacecraft that carried every Apollo crew to the Moon, returning at a…
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Crew Dragon
SpaceX's Dragon 2 capsule ended America's nine-year crew-launch gap in 2020 and now flies…
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Orion
NASA's deep-space capsule for Artemis Moon missions carries four astronauts, and on Artemis I…
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Shenzhou
China's three-seat spacecraft made the country the third nation to launch humans in 2003…
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Soyuz Spacecraft
Flying since 1967, Russia's three-seat Soyuz is the longest-serving crewed spacecraft ever — about…
ExploreSpace Stations
Humanity's permanent outposts in orbit
Space Planes
Winged vehicles that launch like rockets and land like aircraft
Space Probes
The fastest and farthest machines humanity has ever built
Parker Solar Probe
The fastest human-made object ever: NASA's Sun-skimming probe hit 692,000 km/h in December 2024,…
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Voyager 1
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object — more than 24…
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