What is your favourite sci-fi/irl spacecraft, and why?

[chobit-389]

we're starting work on something right now actually ;P

[Canopus]

we're starting work on something right now actually ;P

I need more information please!

[zekes]

Easy

[Kinglet]

I have decided what to do with Blender and Unity. I'll be back later, with a bunch of crap from Avatar, Mass Effect, and Halo. Maybe Space Battleship Yamoto.

The corporation's can go die in a ditch, as far as I'm concerned.

Be sure to recolor and rename them.

[SpaceXray]

ISV venture star+ Valkyrie shuttle SSTO from a very famous movie(you know which one)

[Pingonaut]

Hint: It's not a moon.

[Fingal]

Pah! Size isn't everything (except on the inside).

[Jon Tash]

I have two sci-fi ship that I love:

The X304

And the Destiny

Yes Stargate Fan here!

[RogueMason]

USS Enterprise NCC-1701 (Alternative)

Excelsior class cruiser

NX class cruiser

(those amongst many other Starfleet vessels including the Enterprise D and E)

Aegis Dynamics Avenger

Cobra MkIII

SSV Normandy (SR1 and SR2)

USCSS Prometheus

Dream Chaser

Apollo CSM/LM

Space Shuttle Atlantis (I love the others, but Atlantis is my personal favourite)

Gemini

[RogueMason]

I'm posting again because I forgot Star Wars (I don't know how, but I did)...

Nebulon Ranger

Lambda Shuttle

E-Wing Starfighter

As with the Star Trek ships I listed, there are many other Star Wars vessels that I love, these being just a few.

[Godot]

SciFi:

Terran Trade Authority - Sentinel Major

Because it was a good concept ... they were deployed as defense for the Terran System (against proxima Centrauri) always in groupd of 5 ... 1 manned ship and 4 other Sentinels which were remote controlled by the manned one ... he remote controlled ones armed up to the brim

Battletech - McKenna Class Warship

The biggest baddest War-Jumpship of the Battletech Series ... nuff said

Real Life:

Viking Lander

Because it went to Mars and searched for life (sending back mixed results)

SpaceX Dragon

Because it is the untiring workhorse of our modern space research, reliably shipping supplies to the ISS

Edited July 17, 2014 by Godot

[cantab]

Opportunity. For going further above and beyond the original mission and anyone's expectations, for taking some of the most astounding images of another planet, and for just looking danged cute.

[Ravenchant]

SpaceX Dragon

Because it is the untiring workhorse of our modern space research, reliably shipping supplies to the ISS

Progress would be better suited for the workhorse title, IMHO, at least at this point. SpaceX did what, five missions with Dragon? Progress craft have more than 100 launches behind them and only 2 failures I could find documented.

Anyway, my favourites:

The LEM, of course

Cassini-Huygens

And Buran. Oh, what could have been...

[xcorps]

Kokirrak class dreadnaught.

Because black globe generators on a rust bucket...

[SelectHalfling0]

Real Life: Space Shuttle

Fiction: UNSC Infinity (Halo)

[RocketscientistV]

IXS Enterprise

[Special Agent Sigvan]

The Kestrel from FTL.

[adge]

Star Destroyer for me. Despite the 'flying cheese' shape, I really like it. Something rather.... imposing about it.

[Motokid600]

The SSV Normandy. I love the fact that's it's designed to look like an F1 race car.

[Chris P. Bacon]

Because giant Soviet space lazorz

or.. incase you want to launch commercial satellites from your local Walmart parking lot.

(coolest use of cold-war weapons tech?)

Edited July 20, 2014 by Chris P. Bacon

[Moss]

Zero X from Thunderbirds are Go.

or possibly Pegasus from Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets

[Daishi]

Original Starcraft Wraiths. Because damn, those 1990's cinematics.

[Theoderich]

I am with the person that already posted the Aurora class Starfury from Babylon 5's Earth Alliance.

One of the few true space fighter designs, and sensible too: Thrusters as far away from the COM as possible for maximal torque, pilot close to COM to minimize it ( not artificial gravity available), thrusters in all directions and equally strong front and back ones.

I also liked how (at least in the beginning) the show took care to only show the engines firing when they accelerated, not for cruising.

[LordFerret]

lol ... "Dark Star", and Bomb #20.

[mordin86]

My fav would be " Invincible" rocket from The Invincible novel by Stanislaw Lem. From what I imagine it looks and works like giant one stage rocket fueled by nuclear power and equipped with antimatter weaponry.