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Re: Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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Date: 
Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:10:25 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Yup, I just got my Saturn V moon landing set.
However, I cant figure out where to put the 2 tan stickers or the white
sticker with the US flag (although I probobly put some of the other
stickers on a bit wrong, looks good enough to me anyway)


Note that the stickers with the red NASA "worm" logo are anachronistic.  NASA
didn't approve that logo for use until October 1975, and NEVER used it on ANY
Apollo hardware.  I'm surprised NASA even allowed TLC to use that logo in the
set, they've been trying to "eradicate the worm" since at least 1997.

In lugnet.space, Allan Bedford wrote:
The set is interesting... as are any sets with mixed scale models all
together like this.
1)  Shouldn't this set really be called something like the 'Apollo Moon
Landing Set'?  Since the entire program was called Apollo.  'Saturn V'
really describes only one of the 4 models in the set.  But all those
models were in one way or another part of the overall Apollo program.


You're absolutely right, this set should be called Apollo, not just Saturn V.  I
consider that mistake another example of this entire NASA/Discovery series
having been rushed into production.  I like this set a lot too, but was
disappointed to find that the CSM and LM (Command/Service Module and Lunar
Module) aren't in the same scale, so that when they're docked together, the LM
dwarfs the CSM.

Kevin
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Kevin S. Forsyth
<http://kevinforsyth.net>
History of the Delta Launch Vehicle
<http://kevinforsyth.net/delta/>
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  Re: Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
 
(...) I just bought this set last night. I've wanted a set _like_ this since as far back as I can remember. I've always been a fan of NASA's golden days. The set is interesting... as are any sets with mixed scale models all together like this. (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-03, to lugnet.space)

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