Makes perfectly good sense, in light of the earlier deer, chickens, and peacocks….

The rockets had me going for a while, mostly because I thought they were side-by-side (and thus the same height) and partly because the tail fins on the one on the right are not quite as I remember them from the models I made when I was nine or ten. The one on the right is a Mercury capsule on a Redstone rocket; the configuration that was used in the first two American manned space flights: basically a cone with a guy in it, on top of an ICBM. (The rest of the Mercury missions used the Atlas rocket and were orbital.) The one on the left is a Gemini capsule on a Titan II; they gave us the first space walk and the first docking.