Human-Rated Rockets

The human-rated Titan II Gemini Launch Vehicle, adapted from an ICBM to carry the two-person Gemini spacecraft into orbit.

A NASA heavy-lift launch vehicle used for early Apollo Earth-orbit tests, the Skylab crews, and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.

A long-serving family of Russian expendable rockets that has carried crews and cargo to orbit for over five decades.

A NASA super heavy-lift launch vehicle that carried every crewed Apollo mission to the Moon and launched the Skylab station.

NASA's partially reusable crewed launch system — a winged orbiter with an external tank and two solid rocket boosters — that flew 135 missions building the ISS and servicing Hubble.

China's only human-rated launch vehicle, which carries the Shenzhou spacecraft with crews to the Tiangong space station.

A partially reusable two-stage orbital rocket by SpaceX, the most-flown vehicle in the world with a reusable first stage.

Blue Origin's fully reusable suborbital vehicle for research payloads and crewed flights above the Kármán line; it lands its booster propulsively.

NASA's super heavy-lift rocket for the Artemis program, which launched the uncrewed Artemis I around the Moon in 2022.