I made a comparison of some Orbital Vehicles

[Blue]

Not enough people compare the space cars astronauts fly, because we're all so interested in the loud noises and flashy bits from rocket lifters.

I did a bit of digging and I was actually pretty surprised at the amount of variation in capsule design. And it looks like there will be no shortage in coming years due to commercial enterprises.

[General Rarity]

Now that I look at it, the PPTS looks like the Dragon and Orion had a spacecraft-baby. cannot unsee

[Kryten]

GRAU only apply standardised designations to things; Soyuz and Progress are produced by RKK Energia.

[TythosEternal]

Not enough people compare the space cars astronauts fly, because we're all so interested in the loud noises and flashy bits from rocket lifters.

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I did a bit of digging and I was actually pretty surprised at the amount of variation in capsule design. And it looks like there will be no shortage in coming years due to commercial enterprises.

That's pretty neat! I'm surprised I hadn't seen something like this before. You did a good job.

If I can nitpick one thing... That looks like a Dragon V1; was there a reason you didn't go with a V2 graphic?

Thanks for sharing!

[Red Iron Crown]

Great diagram, I love that sort of thing. Do you have a higher resolution version available?

[Nibb31]

If you're mixing manned and unmanned, you're missing Cygnus and also probably Shuttle and Buran... Voskhod and TKS are missing too...

Edited September 19, 2014 by Nibb31

[Kryten]

Shenzhou's docking probe is missing.

[cantab]

Agreed, Shuttle seems like a big omission.

Might also be nice to throw in a couple of the deep space probes. Curiosity, Voyager, maybe Hubble?

[Blue]

I guess I just wanted to juxtapose different capsule shapes, rather than rigorously presenting all models of human-rated spacecraft.