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While rendering the landing platform, I dredged up an older model of mine for a size comparison, a 1950s-style rocket that wasn't a whole lot more than a hood ornament, and of course, I got distracted ;). I've used it in a couple previous pix, showing it at different scales:

Moon Maiden by Ptrope The Uncanny Space Virgin by Ptrope

This time, something compelled me to detail it a bit more, which has mostly been separating its stages. So this new render is very much a WIP, and I'm going to go back to finish the landing platform, but I hope to come back to this in the new year and more fully 'NASA-fy' it, while retaining its '50s-era sleekness.

EDIT: More detail added - in keeping with a classic rocketship, this one has multiple decks, perpendicular to its centerline, and I've added windows to each of them. I also visually divided the habitat section from the lifter with a corrugated section, inspired again by NASA rockets of the 1960s. And I added a ring of retro rockets around the base of the separate crew capsule, capable of blasting it free if needed, or steering the ship in flight. Unseen here, the capsule has a full heat shield with a hatch, and a matching hatch in the top interface of the main rocket. I left the main hatch a different color for contrast; inside the capsule, I figure a crew of about 6 would be in vertical couches arranged around the centerline, facing outward and reclined, similar to those in the MAV in the movie "The Martian".
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"Rocket X1.  Confirm you are go for first stage speratation."

"Roger Control.  First stage seperation in 3, 2, 1... First stage seperation... confirmed."

"Confirmed X1, that's right by the numbers.  You are go for second stage ignition at your discretion."

"Roger Control.  Confirm second stage ignition on count of ten."

:woohoo: