Launch Vehicles

Launch Vehicles use various methods in order to reach space.

The most common are rockets. They are referred to as Expendable Launch Vehicles. Many use rocket engines that use liquid propellants such as kerosene and liquid oxygen. Other methods include air-launched launch vehicle like Pegasus.

Some are single stage to orbit stages, some use two stages or more. Some are vertical launch and some spaceplanes designs take off like planes.

Launch Vehicles Guide

Dreamchaser Landing Picture
Super Heavy Rocket Picture

X-33

X-33 was the sub-scale prototype version of the Single Stage to Orbit Venture Star. It was wedge shaped X-33. It was developed jointly between NASA...

Ariane-5

Ariane-5 (Expendable Rocket) is part of the European Union's Space Program. At present, the Ariane 5 functions as a Commercial Satellite Launcher and was used...

Space Shuttle Pictures

The Space Shuttle Pictures features images from earth orbit, of the crawler, launch pad and include shuttles Discovery and Atlantis. NASA Space Shuttle...Launch Schedule. 0 Days...

HL-20

HL-20 was a lifting body spaceplane concept researched and studied by Langley Research Center (LaRC) for manned orbital missions using an expendable launch vehicle. It had a...

X-15

North American X-15 rocket plane was an experimental aircraft project. It was the first aircraft to attain velocities of Mach 4, 5 and 6. The...

N1 Rocket

N1 was the Soviet Unions Moon Rocket. It was the Soviet counterpart of the American Saturn-V. The launch location site was Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union. The...

Yakovlev Skylifter

Yakovlev Skylifter was a proposed air-launched vehicle concept from the late 1990s. Yakovlev Skylifter was proposed as a large twin fuselage aircraft that could carry a...

Saturn 1B

Saturn 1B rocket was an uprated Saturn 1. It is part of the Saturn family of rockets. It was used to test the Apollo spacecraft,...

Saturn V

The Saturn V (Saturn-5) was used for Nasa's late 1960's/early 1970's Apollo Moon Programme and for the launching Skylab Space Station in the 1970's. Achievements: Launched astronauts on Apollo...

Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-135

Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-135 was the final Space Shuttle mission. The flight carried the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics (MPLM) with supplies, logistics and spare parts...

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