The most epic spaceship launches

The founder of modern astronautics, Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, in his scientific work “The Spaceship”, written in 1924, called the spacecraft intended for flight into space a celestial ship. Thanks to the works of renowned scientists of that time, space became much closer for the inhabitants of the Earth, and dreams of interstellar flights ceased to be only fiction. We present you a beautiful and spectacular selection of launches of various celestial ships of various years.

The launch of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969. The ship first delivered astronauts to the moon, and Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the surface of the moon.

The launch of Falcon 9, February 19, 2017. The American company SpaceX launched a rocket into space from the cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral (Florida).

The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft, April 20, 2017. The development of the first spacecraft of the Soyuz series, which began in 1962, was led by Sergey Pavlovich Korolev.

Tianzhou-1 is the first cargo spacecraft launched by the Chinese on April 20, 2017.

The launch of Atlantis at Cape Canaveral, May 14, 2010. It is one of NASA’s five reusable transport spacecraft.

Soyuz takes off from Baikonur on February 22, 2017.

Launch of the updated manned spacecraft Soyuz MS-04 on April 20, 2017. Modernization has occurred in almost all systems of the Union. They plan to use the ship until a new generation ship, the Federation, is ready to replace it.

The Japanese H-IIA rocket will launch on March 17, 2017. The H-IIA was commissioned by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and is a disposable mid-range launch vehicle.

The ship launched on April 11, 1970 as part of the Apollo 13 program.

Missile defense system "David Sling", owned by the Israel Defense Forces.

Disposable 2-stage Atlas-5 launch vehicle. The cost of its launch, depending on the version, ranges from 110 to 230 million dollars.

Soyuz take-off trajectory, shot at long exposure. The design of manned spacecraft is extremely complex, so they are available only in three countries of the world: USSR / Russia, USA, China. Moreover, the latter in many respects resembles the Soviet Union in its ships.

Shenzhou-9 Chinese manned spacecraft launched into space on June 16, 2012.

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