artwork by Winchell Chung jr.
If you want to get an idea of other sizes, go check out
Jeff Russell's Starship Dimensions website.
- [1] Giraffe: 6 meters/20 feet
- [2] City Bus: 12 meters/40 feet long
- [3] Small Orion Drive ship: 21 meters/70 feet
- [4] Millennium Falcon: 27 meters/90 feet (Star Wars)
- [5] Polaris: 43 meters/140 feet (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet)
- [6] Moonship: 44 meters/144 feet (Chesley Bonestell Conquest of Space)
- [7] Luna: 46 meters/150 feet (Destination Moon)
- [8] Arc De Triomphe: 49 meters/160 feet
- [9] Orion Drive Mars Exploration Vehicle: 50 meters/165 feet
- [10] United Planets Star Cruiser C-57D: 51 meters/170 feet wide (Forbidden Planet)
- [11] Nautilus: 51 meters/170 feet long
- [12] Space Shuttle stack: 56 meters/180 feet
- [13] Absyrtis: 60 meters/197 feet (G. Harry Stine Contraband Rocket)
- [14] Boeing747: 72 meters/232 feet
- [15] RS-10: 73 meters/240 feet (Andre Norton Star Born)
- [16] Ferry Rocket: 84 meters/280 feet (Collier's Magazine, 22 March, 1952)
- [17] Statue of Liberty: 93 meters/300 feet
- [18] DE-51 Destroyer Buckley: 93 meters/306 feet
- [19] Saturn V: 102 meters/335 feet
- [20] DY-100 Botany Bay: 111 meters/365 feet (Star Trek)
- [21] California Redwood: 112 meters/367 feet
- [22] Discovery: 113 meters/370 feet (2001, A Space Odyssey)
- [23] Romulan Bird of Prey: 131 meters/430 feet (Star Trek)
- [24] Great Pyramid of Cheops: 140 meters/500 feet
- [25] Oscar class submarine: 154 meters/500 feet
- [26] Galactic Cruiser Leif Ericson: 169 meters/554 feet
- [27] Washington Monument: 170 meters/560 feet
- [28] Klingon D7 battlecruiser: 228 meters/750 feet (Star Trek)
- [29] LZ-129 Passenger airship Hindenburg: 245 meters/800 feet
- [30] BB-62 Battleship New Jersey: 270 meters/887 feet
- [31] NCC 1701 Starship Enterprise: 289 meters/950 feet (Star Trek)
- [32] Eiffel Tower: 324 meters/1060 feet
- [33] CVN-65 Carrier Enterprise: 336 meters/1101 feet
- [34] Empire State Building: 444 meters/1500 feet