![]() I haven't done an actual build yet to verify everything works as expected, but I just finished a virtual build up with the following changes:Ĭleaned up cargo bay cosmetically and added mounting points for canadarm(s)Īirlock outer hatch is connected with removable pin so that additional habitat modules can be connected to airlock stay rigid in cargo bay areaĪPAS module redesigned for a tighter fit and to allow clearance for canadarm(s)Ĭanadarms now built out of bars which I feel is cosmetically better, although cannot support any real weight under gravity (just like the real thing!) I was sad to hear the "ideas" set was turned down a few years ago, and I was just revisiting my old photo-based LDD buildup of the model a last week, and realized that I had never finished implementing some of the modifications that I had done for the Shuttle Expedition set a number of years back. We will be back in Orlando next week, and am hoping SpaceX gets their stuff together with Falcon Heavy and gives it a go while we're there - I'll try to see it from the park again.Thanks for posting up these directions KingsKnight! From right next to the Knight Bus outside Diagon Alley. We were at Universal Studios in Orlando in December, and I noted that there was going to be a Falcon 9 launch, so we made sure to be somewhere we could see the sky to the east, and indeed we got to see the flame from the rocket taking off. It was awesome to see, and I would have loved to see a Saturn V upright on the pad, but I'm a couple decades too young for that. We couldn't actually go on the pad, though, as there was a shuttle being prepped for launch (it had scrubbed the previous week and was still hanging around, so we were lucky in that regard). When I went as a kid, I think we did the standard bus tour, and when I went as an adult, we sprung for the (I think it's called) "behind the scenes" bus tour, that gets you a bit closer. I have a hard time seeing how people could not enjoy a trip to KSC, but I guess there are such people (poor close-minded souls). Have been to KSC twice, once as a kid with my parents, and once as an adult with my wife. But if I did, this one, and the Porsche 911, would be at the top of my list. I was aware of the existence of this thing, but don't really have (or make) the time to play with Legos nowadays. Love NASA, love the Saturn V, love Legos, so this thread is a lot of win. But I like to think that the people who make Legos are as big of nerds as people like me who enjoy building with them. I like to think that after Lego finished designing the kit, they had like 1,957 pieces or something and some astronomy/rocketry nerd was like "Guys, if we can just fit 12 more pieces in there somewhere, we can have a part count that reads the year of the Saturn V's most successful mission!" And the rest of them got way too excited and set about tweaking the kit with an extra 12 pieces. We have vehicles on the verge of being able to drive themselves, although we're still further away than a lot of people seem to think - it's not "two years out", it's probably 10-20 years at least. We have computers that respond to voice commands and have access to the entirety of human knowledge, that mostly fit in our pockets. In a lot of ways, though we are living in a kind of Star Trek world (minus the teleporters and warp drives). ![]() Of course, I'm always a fan of the "I don't have time to talk to you" excuse (regardless of its validity at the time). People may gripe about text messages and the "lack of communication skills", but they are definitely easier to ignore.
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