How to Make a Rocket In Maya

First start by selecting the cylinder tool

Next make it your desired size

Once you have your shape go into vertex mode

Select the middle vertex of the top of the cylinder

Next move it up tell you have a point that you like

Then select the middle point of the bottom 

and pull it up to be the engine

Next select the outer points of the bottom of the cylinder

Get the scale tool and shrink them

It should look like this when you are done

Next select the spots you want to be finns

Then select the extrude tool

and also select the scale tool and scale them up

Next use the transform tool to bring them down

Then select the scale tool

and scale them down to look like fins

Once your done with that all you need to do is color

And that is your rocket completed from one simple cylinder.