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We lost another Apollo astronaut. https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-administrator-remembers-apollo-astronaut-thomas-k-mattingly-ii/ RIP, He did great things.

We lost Mark Goddard. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mark-goddard-dead-lost-in-space-actor-1235617996/

Yes it's the official start of summer, But try and take a moment this week end and give quiet thanks to those who have sacrificed all.

I found this at Walmart.com of all places. $35 shipped. It's just a toy, but it's fun! It's a tiny working TV that plays TOS clips! When you turn it on it plays the opening theme the cycles through 20 show clips. And it has a test pattern Movie Spock is watching TV...

I didn't know any were still flying!

Cleaning in the boiler room yesterday I found 2 plastic tubs of rockets I had forgotten about. They must have been put away 10-15 years ago. The Centuri Space shuttle is the old Blast From the Past kit (Late 90's or early 2000's?) It's flown many times, and looks like it! I never finished...

Pulled it out of the stash today. Looks like a nice kit. 3D printed boattail and nose cone. They have some print lines on them, but not too bad. Looks like thin basswood for the fins and paper body tubes. The motor mount is conventional, You will need a motor to glue the motor stop in...

Saw this on another forum, looks very cool. $4K for the camp. Steep, but reasonable for what you get.

These just came today! Very fast service! One V2 is the Bumper/WAC the other is just a plain V2. They included some cool MMX stands for free! You can see them in the bottom of the photo. Now I have to out how to build them!

From ARA press. I just got mine today. Thumbed through it and it looks very interesting. $39.99 and shipping was included on mine. https://www.arapress.com/

I found the nosecone for this in my stash of rocket parts, so I figured it's time to clone it. The plans are here: https://www.spacemodeling.org/jimz/estes/est0816.pdf I found a nice section of BT-50, cut it to 7.75 inches for the kit. Printed out the fin patterns, use the PDF files to get...

Next up is the MMX Hawk. The usual high quality parts and a simple construction jig The body if basswood, very strong.

I'll pause for a moment and let that sink in..... The stupidity of government.

I went looking for something, My Mini-Mars Lander kit. I didn't find it but I found A LOT of other stuff.... Not shown are the boxes of bodytubes, nose cones, and fin stock. I have all the parts together for the Estes Gemini-Titan clone I was going to start with a sweet set of Sticker...

The Orbital Transport was so much fun, I broke out the Mars Lander. I have every version of the Mars Lander, so this is a natural. Many quality parts! The Motor mount is typical. To make the rocket nozzle 3 concentric rings are glued to the end and then sanded into a cone shape. An...

I haven't built a rocket in almost a decade, But seeing the anniversary of Carls passing I thought it might be time. To honor him I wanted it to be a Semroc kit. I went over to erockets and saw the Micro Orbital Transport! Very cool! I know Carl did not bring this kit to market, but it's a...

Does anyone have any ideas? I need to ship 2 Estes Space Plane's, 2 Scout's, and a Big Bertha across the country. I'm going to use USPS or FedEx. What I need to know is how have people been packing rockets for safe shipping? Thanks Mark

Hi all, I've been away for a while. I have a question about the original color scheme of the Astron Space Plane. Does anyone have any color photos from the '60s? I also need to find a set of the original Estes decals. I need to build one as original by mid September. Excelsior...

https://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-trojan-asteroid-20110728,0,284121.story Cool! Earth has at least one trojan asteroid. Too bad we have no way to visit it. :mad:

He sleeps upside down like a bat. (nothing to do with rockets)