Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Space Ships, New, Old, New Retired, side by side comparison

Every now and then you run across a piece of info , a short, story graphic whatever, that just has you totally enthralled.  I don't know for sure if this graphic is quite there, but I did find it strange and wonderful.   I was going through the Boing Boing blog when I came across the article from Supernova Condensate comparing craft in service to retired or proposed spacecraft.

There are other information but just seeing them as a unit is pretty amazing.    I think what is cool just to look at the "under development" units.  Tell me that doesnt worry ya?!

Kallamis sent in this note about the Skylon I thought I would share.

  • Skylon is actually a British concept for a single stage re-usable pilot-less space plane. Hydrogen powered and designed to take off from a regular runway. Here's the link to the wiki article.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)
Thanks Kall, very interesting!



3 comments:

kallamis said...

Skylon huh? Interesting name and images pop up with that one. Starting with the concept of Skynet, and a Pylon being fused into one thing would be terrifying indeed.

Beam Me Up said...

Just LOOKING at it one has to wonder what the hell is going on with this nightmare of a ship! It dwarfs everything on the page! It even gives the ISS a run and if we look at just the modules and not all the solar cells, it DOES. That was the main reason for putting it up....just the impact of something of that size! and Secret to boot!

kallamis said...

Skylon is actually a British concept for a single stage re-usable pilot-less space plane. Hydrogen powered and designed to take off from a regular runway. Here's the link to the wiki article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)