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== Literature ==
* Well you can see [https://web.archive.org/web/20070224112710/http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/galileo2.jpg from the cover of the book] how the ''[[Rocket Ship Galileo]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]] fits in.
* The cover of another [[Robert Heinlein]] book: [[media:Robert Heinlein - Space Cadet.jpg|Space Cadet]].
* In ''[[Hyperion]]'', the Consul's starship is specifically designed to fit the Platonic ideal of "space ship". This ideal, at least according to the author, is that of the Retro Rocket.
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* The [[Space Police|Space Ranger]] ships in ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]''.
* ''[[Thunderbirds]]'' and its craft Thunderbirds 1 and 3. One's a hypersonic plane based on 50s-60s high-tech fighters and X-planes (MiG-21, X-5, X-15) and mid-50s VTOL designs like the XFV and XFY. The other is a rocket ship with a tripod of engines. Both essentially have the same overall shape and impact leading to many seven year old arguments about which one was better. Both fit very well into the trope, aside from TB 1's VTOL abilities in horizontal position.
** The rocket ships in ''Sunprobe'' and ''Day of Disaster'' were each examples of this trope. The [https://web.archive.org/web/20130402200429/http://davidszondy.com/future/Thunderbirds/sunprobe.htm Sunprobe] was a Vostok-style engine cluster with loads of extra fins and a full-on Retro Rocket stuck on the nose. The Mars Probe in ''Day of Disaster''...[https://web.archive.org/web/20130402185949/http://davidszondy.com/future/Thunderbirds/marsprobe.htm Well, see for yourself].
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