Rocket hardware is always awesome eye candy, no matter what country is sending stuff into space. Awesome, and, well, sexy. You know what I mean. I like the rockets with the boom. Just look at all these pretty space-bound asses.
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Proton-M, Russian heavy carrier rocket
Photo: Roscosmos
Soyuz, Russian launch vehicle
Photo: Roscosmos
Photo: Bill Ingalls/NASA
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket engines in two different configuration
Photo: SpaceX
Photo: Steve Jurvetson
Photo: SpaceX
N1, the Soviets’ ill-fated moon rocket
Source: YouTube
Source: Martin Trolle Mikkelsen
Her Majesty (Saturn V)
Photo: Attila Nagy/Gizmodo
The aft portion of the space shuttle
Photo: NASA
Photo: NASA
Vostok-1, Yuri Gagarin’s iconic rocket ride
Source: Galambos Tibor – Emberek a világűrben. Kossuth Könyvkiadó, Magyar-Szovjet Baráti Társaság, Táncsics Könyvkiadó, 1975.
Photo: Sárosi Gyula. In: Repülés, 1967. október. XX. évf./10. szám.
Photo: AP
Thrust-Augmented Delta rocket carrying the Nimbus E, the sixth spacecraft in the Nimbus series
Photo: NASA
Saturn IB launch vehicle
Photo: NASA/MSFC
Photo: NASA/MSFC
Photo: Jet Lowe/Library Of Congress
Buran, the Russian space shuttle on the Energia heavy launcher
Photo: Buran.ru
Ariane 5, the heavy launcher of the European Space Agency
Photo: S. Corvaja/ESA
Photo: S. Corvaja/CNES/Arianespace/ESA
The Antares rocket
Photo: Orbital Sciences
Historic close-up view of the Redstone rocket, with the tail section removed
Photo: Library Of Congress
