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TOP 11 COOLEST SPACESHIPS
Worshipping spaceships is as much a passage of life as puberty for most young men. Almost every boy on Earth has gone through that period when there's absolutely nothing cooler than spaceships - be they rockets, space shuttles, or X-Wing Fighters. It's usually right after the days when nothing's cooler than a dinosaur and just before you discover that boobs aren't all that bad. Aside from promiscuous alien women and ray guns, they're one of the main reasons why we love science fiction so much. With Danny Boyle's Sunshine opening this weekend, adding the Icarus 5 to the list of cinema's most kick-ass spaceships, we thought we'd indulge in the classic game of picking favorites. Which spaceships sparked our imaginations the best and why? What makes a cool spaceship? What are our favorites? After some harsh cuts, we came up with the top eleven spaceships that have quickened our nerd pulses over the years. So, strap in, prepare for blast-off, and take the ride...
11. Eagle 5 (Spaceballs)
It may not win any style awards, but the Eagle 5 stays cool by being true to itself. It's a rocket-propelled Winnebago with wings. It's driven by a half man, half dog (a 'mog') named Barf and a bad-ass drunk named Lone Starr. What more do you want from an outer space recreational vehicle? The Eagle 5 is the Ted Nugent of hyperspace travel - not too pretty, a little trashy, but it can still kick your ass even if it's half-drunk. A Winnebago may not be the easiest ship to maneuver in an intergalactic dogfight, but it gets the job done... and with diesel gas (Liquid Schwartz package is optional. Talk to your dealer for more information).
10. Event Horizon (Event Horizon)
You wouldn't want to hang out on the Event Horizon for too long, but it comes in at number 10 because it's basically a portal to Hell... and, to be honest, we're a little scared NOT to put it on the list. The Event Horizon was big, dark, scary, and it totally stole the movie from the actors who were struggling to keep their sanity on Paul W.S. Anderson's ship of doom (wait, there were actors in Event Horizon?). How can you not get a vicarious thrill out of a spaceship that can fold space-time, creating a wormhole to anywhere in the universe, all while it convinces you to gouge your own eyes out? It's like teenaged Clive Barker's wet dream come to life.
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HONKING HUGE SPACESHIPS
It slides into view, slowly filling the frame: a giant spaceship, bristling with nacelles, antennas and other devices of unknown purpose. A deep rumbling pushes your sound system’s bass response to the limit. After a length of time, as determined by a complex interplay between how much awe or menace the director is trying to convey and the size of the special effects budget, a collection of glowing engines finally passes into view.
Whether it’s an interstellar freight transport, a Colonial Battlestar, or even a Star Destroyer, one thing is for sure: it’s honkin huge!
By comparison, Earth’s current mega-space project, the International Space Station, is puny. When (and if) completed, the ISS’s spindly conglomeration of modules, trusses and solar panels will be 361 ft long and mass of about 460 tons. (For comparison, 361 feet is the supposed width of one of Battlestar Galactica’s flight pods.
The reason we don’t have anything even approaching, say, the wheeled space stations envisioned in the 1950’s, let alone the giant spacecraft of science fiction movies, is because building large structures in space is tough. In the absence of fully-equipped orbital shipyards, spacecraft and spacestations have to be built on Earth, and then lofted into orbit atop a rocket. America’s Skylab and Russia’s series of Salyut space stations were built all in one piece and then launched into orbit, but the limit of how big such a space station can be was quickly reached in the 1970’s. The next logical step was to build larger structures by plugging together prefabricated modules launched separately, and the Soviet Union pioneered this technique with the Mir space station, which grew from a single core module launched in 1986 to a 7 module complex by the time Mir was deorbited in 2001.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with a super duper exclusive first look at Jon Favreau's follow-up to ELF, a kid's adventure film called ZATHURA, based on the popular kid's book Chris Van Allsburg. I'm not too familiar with the book, but the story revolves around a pair of young brothers as their house suddenly decides to hurdle through space and the adventures that presents. It has been reported that Tim Robbins plays the kid's father, but nothing else has hit the net about this project until now.
S97-07838 (July 1997)--- (Artist's concept of possible exploration programs.) With all engines running, the crew and their spacecraft leaves Earth-orbit and begins their 6 month voyage to the red planet. These images produced for NASA by John Frassanito and Associates. Technical concepts for NASA's Exploration Office, Johnson Space Center (JSC).
Above: A next-generation minivan? Advanced materials will be essential for making dramatically improved spacecraft possible.
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Good news for rich guys with spaceman fantasies: Virgin Galactic is on track to start launching commercial space flights in 2009, and they just announced their new spaceship designs.
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