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Matthew Ota wrote:
Don't jump the gun on this CEV model. That is what Revell did back in the 1960s with their 1/72 scale CSM molds, which were forever locked into the incorrect Apollo Block 1 configuration. This is not really a problem. The investment in tooling needed for a resin kit such as this is many orders of magnitude lower than for a high-pressure injection molded kit. And besides... it'll be *years* before a final configuration is settled upon. -- "The only thing that galls me about someone burning the American flag is how unoriginal it is. I mean if you're going to pull the Freedom-of-speech card, don't be a hack, come up with something interesting. Fashion Old Glory into a wisecracking puppet and blister the system with a scathing ventriloquism act, or better yet, drape the flag over your head and desecrate it with a large caliber bullet hole." Dennis Miller |
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What's lacking are companies that would be willing to do it as expensively as the use of a CEV would require.
Then increase the flight rate. No such thing as a manned spacecraft that'll be "cheap" if only flown a few times a year. |
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Pat Flannery ) wrote:
: Invid Fan wrote: : I picked one up when the first station segments were sent up. It's a : bitch to put together, with unlabled parts and somewhat unclear : directions. Or my model skills had just failed me : : : I'd been building models for around 35 years before I built mine, and it : kept me very busy, let me tell you. : The detail on that main mechanical arm is really something, isn't it? : http://www.imrcmodels.com/iss/images/iss46.jpg : http://www.imrcmodels.com/iss/images/iss45.jpg : (it's all articulated...and fragile) : On the upside, it looks downright spectacular when finished. : This particular upgrade from Realspace Models would add a very nice : touch, but might be fragile: : http://www.realspacemodels.com/html/iss_photoetch.html : Wasn't that some of the oddest plastic you ever ran into? It's very high : quality and tough, but it's not normal model kit plastic. : I think it's what they make model trains out of. The whole kit gives the : feeling of something designed for NASA publicity purposes. When I talked : to the company over the phone, they mentioned grade schools assembling : these as class projects to improve teamwork skills on the part of : students (by the time this truly extraordinary woman was done talking, : it sounded like the model would single-handedly eliminate poverty and : crime in inner cities. "Buy This Kit....Save The World!") : I get a sneaking suspicion that these kits were being sent to inner city : schools free of charge as part of a NASA/aerospace industry publicity : ploy. Let's hope the kids weren't driven to despair by the kit's complexity. "Yes your honor, it was a model project back in grade school that made quit school and use and sell drugs." : Pat |
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On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:07:57 GMT, in a place far, far away,
lid (John Savard) made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 04:26:11 GMT, Scott Lowther wrote, in part: Breaking news... http://www.starshipmodeler.net/cgi-b...ic.php?t=31504 LOL! Now, if only your subject line were literally true... and there were private companies that had a rational reason to have personnel flown to the Moon There are many companies with rational reasons to have personnel flown to the moon. What's lacking are companies that would be willing to do it as expensively as the use of a CEV would require. |
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Pat Flannery wrote: jonathan wrote: Ever see this spectacular kit of the space station? I've been tempted to order one. http://www.imrcmodels.com/iss/issphoto01.htm I've got one. It comes in a fairly small (and very heavy) box. I had no idea just how big the ISS was until I built that model- it dwarfs my Mir, Skylab, and Salyut models in the same scale. The model is made out of a tough plastic that doesn't seem to be styrene, which means that if you are going to glue stuff together, superglue is a better choice than model cement. Could be Delrin or "engineering plastic", which show up in model railroad kits for parts that would be too delicate in styrene. Intermountain seems to have a decent reputation in model railroading, fitting in to the "Lexus" price range compared to Athearn's "Toyota" price range, but not up to the "Daimler" price range of some craftsmen kits (I know, I shifted countries in that analogy). Maybe the boss is a space freak, too, eh? /dps |
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Eric Chomko wrote: "Yes your honor, it was a model project back in grade school that made quit school and use and sell drugs." There's a South Park episode lurking in there somewhere. (Cut to image of Kenny impaled on a solar array.) :-D Pat |
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snidely wrote: Could be Delrin or "engineering plastic", which show up in model railroad kits for parts that would be too delicate in styrene. Now that you mention it, it did somewhat resemble Plastruct engineering model plastic. Intermountain seems to have a decent reputation in model railroading, fitting in to the "Lexus" price range compared to Athearn's "Toyota" price range, but not up to the "Daimler" price range of some craftsmen kits (I know, I shifted countries in that analogy). Maybe the boss is a space freak, too, eh? I found the story of where it came from: http://www.imrcmodels.com/iss/issinfo.htm "THE MODEL A project of the scope and character (of the International Space Station) requires that models be available as educational tools for all aspects of the planning, development, and utilization of the prototype. With this in mind and responding to the growing demand, Johnson Engineering of Houston, Texas and InterMountain Railway Company of Longmont, Colorado have cooperated in the development of a 1:144 scale model of ISS. The dimensions of the completed model are 30x22x20". It is injection molded in styrene plastic, and will be mass produced in several versions to meet the varying needs for such a model." They say it's styrene, I don't know if they changed the plastic, or if it's some sort of super styrene. Pat |
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And there's no way that CEV will be cheap even if flown a thousand
times a year, if it flies on top of an expendable. Agreed. That's why you should fly it on the Stick rather than the EELVs. EELVs are fully expendable. Stick is fully reusable. |
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wrote in message ups.com... And there's no way that CEV will be cheap even if flown a thousand times a year, if it flies on top of an expendable. Agreed. That's why you should fly it on the Stick rather than the EELVs. EELVs are fully expendable. Stick is fully reusable. The stick is only planned to be partially resuable. Unfortunately, the part that is planned to be reusable (the SRB) doesn't save you much money over building it as an expendable. Jeff -- Remove icky phrase from email address to get a valid address. |
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