January 16, 2026 6:01 pm Robert Zimmerman
A evening pause: The list is not quite complete, but it does give a sense of the comparable sizes of the most important rockets flying today, with a few important historic examples thrown in for context.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Rocket Size Comparison 2024
Gravity
@TalentedTwin
2 years ago (edited)
Many inaccuracies in this video. The Saturn IB didn't look like a Saturn V. There's missing the Deltas, Atlas V, Titan II, Juno, Thor, Buran, Vostok, Voskhod, Sputnik, Soyuz capsule, Apollo capsule, Gemini capsule, Mercury capsule, etc. The Atlas V is shown as the Delta Heavy with a white painted core instead of an orange painted core and the Atlas V anyway doesn't have orange painted solid rocket boosters and it doesn't have two large side boosters, Space Shuttles didn't have black painted SRBs, the SLS doesn't have white painted core stages, the Mercury-Redstone and Mercury-Atlas didn't have white painted capsules nor did the Atlas have white painted boosters (they were chrome and turned white from ice before the launch shook the ice off), the N1 rocket didn't have orange painted stages, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSNh5UGEETw
