Saturn V
Those of you who were reading my blog ten years ago (back when it was "Teahouse on the Tracks") may remember that I decided to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11 by building a Saturn V rocket.
I started with the 1/96th scale Revell kit, re-released in 2009! It's actually about as old as the Apollo program itself, and because it was tooled-up slightly ahead of the missions themselves, it's supposedly not quite accurate for Apollo 11.
Looks good enough to me, though:
Although I buil...
I started with the 1/96th scale Revell kit, re-released in 2009! It's actually about as old as the Apollo program itself, and because it was tooled-up slightly ahead of the missions themselves, it's supposedly not quite accurate for Apollo 11.
Looks good enough to me, though:
Although I buil...
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Jul 22, 2019 12:07PM
In the days of my youth (1960s) The big facility at Aerojet General in California would test the Saturn engines on a hard stand. It was a few miles away, but the sound was pretty intimidating anyway.
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