How Big Is the ISS Compared to Science Fiction Spaceships?

[Seraphim]

Hey Check it out.
I didn't know the galactica was that much larger than the enterprise.
I think Star Wars ships should have been included in the comparison.
Here's the link:
How Big Is the ISS Compared to Science Fiction Spaceships?

 

[bigdaddy]

Isn't the middle one a Star Wars ship?

 

[Christopher]

Isn't the middle one a Star Wars ship?

It looks like the Rebel Blockade Runner (the first ship seen in the first movie), but that would be Alderaanian, not Corellian, wouldn't it?

 

[Neroon]

Hey Check it out.
I didn't know the galactica was that much larger than the enterprise.
I think Star Wars ships should have been included in the comparison.
Here's the link:
How Big Is the ISS Compared to Science Fiction Spaceships?

You might want to try consulting with this cahrt as well.

 

[FalTorPan]

The Rebel Blockade Runner diagram is very inaccurate. It's missing an entire section between the sensor antennae and the engine blocks.

 

[Neroon]

The Rebel Blockade Runner diagram is very inaccurate. It's missing an entire section between the sensor antennae and the engine blocks.

On which diagram? Seriously.... this is not something I'm terribly up on

 

[Shawnster]

You may also want to refer to this site:
http://www.merzo.net/

ISS is listed at the bottom of the -2X magnification.

 

[FordSVT]

^Best site ever. I've had that in my bookmarks for years. So fun!

And yeah, unless you're comparing it to the NASA shuttle or a shuttle craft from Star Trek it's still pretty tiny. Even more so if you only look at the habitable space and delete the solar collectors.

Still very cool that it's floating around up there!

 

[FalTorPan]

The Rebel Blockade Runner diagram is very inaccurate. It's missing an entire section between the sensor antennae and the engine blocks.

On which diagram? Seriously.... this is not something I'm terribly up on

The first diagram's depiction of the Blockade Runner is the bad one. (I can't tell if the ship is even in the second diagram.)

Here's an image of the Blockade Runner filming miniature, showing the section between the sensor antenna and the engine blocks:

http://www.starshipmodeler.com/starwars/md_Block_07.jpg

 

[Neroon]

^Best site ever. I've had that in my bookmarks for years. So fun!

Isn't it though? What impresses me the most is sheer breadth of shows/films it covers.

 

[CommodoreKong]

Isn't the middle one a Star Wars ship?

It looks like the Rebel Blockade Runner (the first ship seen in the first movie), but that would be Alderaanian, not Corellian, wouldn't it?

I'm pretty sure that Corellian Corvettte is the official name of the ship, and Rebel Blockade Runner is just a nickname.

 

[Skywalker]

The Corellian corvette was manufactured by the Corellian Engineering Corporation. The corvette seen in the beginning of ANH, the Tantive IV, was Alderaanian-owned, but Corellian-built.

 

[FordSVT]

^Best site ever. I've had that in my bookmarks for years. So fun!

Isn't it though? What impresses me the most is sheer breadth of shows/films it covers.

The list of sci-fi properties it does not cover would be very short. Pretty much any noteworthy ship committed to film, TV, or even described in a book or shown on a book cover is in there. Even some theoretical craft the fols at NASA have dreamed up over the years. And the way you can move them around and stuff is so useful.

Some of these ships are huge though. When you think of how big Star Trek ships and Star Wars ships are, and then look at them compared to some of the others, they are simply dwarfed!

 

[Klaus]

I've also had this site bookmarked for years, it rocks!

 

[M'Sharak]

**bookmarks it again**

 

[Nardpuncher]

^Best site ever. I've had that in my bookmarks for years. So fun!

Isn't it though? What impresses me the most is sheer breadth of shows/films it covers.

The list of sci-fi properties it does not cover would be very short. Pretty much any noteworthy ship committed to film, TV, or even described in a book or shown on a book cover is in there. Even some theoretical craft the fols at NASA have dreamed up over the years. And the way you can move them around and stuff is so useful.

Some of these ships are huge though. When you think of how big Star Trek ships and Star Wars ships are, and then look at them compared to some of the others, they are simply dwarfed!

Heck, the guy even includes Godzilla, the Cloverfield monster and the Hindenburg!

 

[Neroon]

Heck, the guy even includes Godzilla, the Cloverfield monster and the Hindenburg!

Obviously a gentleman of diverse and refined tastes.

 

[Cicero]

This isn't actually on the chart, but Starbase 74 (the bigger spacedock from TNG) is more than two thirds as tall as the Executor is long?

 

[Jimilu]

Great Site.. the super star destroyer 19 km.. imagine something like that...

 

[Seraphim]

Great Site.. the super star destroyer 19 km.. imagine something like that...

I was thinking the same thing.