Revell 04909 Apollo Saturn V 1:144 Scale Unbuilt/Unpainted Plastic Model Kit

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a b John P. Sumrall A New Heavy-Lift Capability for Space Exploration: NASA's Ares V Cargo Launch Vehicle. NASA Through years of triumph and tragedy, direct experience and engineering risk analyses have concluded that separating the crew from the cargo during launch reduces safety risks and improves safety statistics. a b c d e f g h "Third stage fact sheet" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 21, 2005 . Retrieved July 7, 2020.

Long, Tony. "July 11, 1979: Look Out Below! Here Comes Skylab!". Wired. Archived from the original on July 7, 2020 . Retrieved July 7, 2020. Stafford, Thomas P. (1991). America at the Threshold – Report of the Synthesis Group on America's Space Exploration Initiative. Bernan Assoc. ISBN 9780160317651. The S-IC stage from SA-515, originally at the Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, is now on display at the Infinity Science Center in Mississippi. [108]

Box and contents

Edit: Oooh, hang on. Not quite that one, which seems to have the umbilical tunnel moulded as one part with the rest of the CSM—mine provided the umbilical tunnel as a separate part.

Boehm, J.; Fichtner, H.J.; Hoberg, Otto A. "Exlplorer Satellites Launched by Juno 1 and Juno 2 Vehicles" (PDF). Astrionics Division George C. Marshall Space Flight Center National Aeronautics and Space Administration Huntsville, Alabama. p.163. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 10, 2020 . Retrieved July 24, 2020. a b "Second Stage, S-II-F/D, Saturn V Launch Vehicle, Dynamic Test Version". airandspace.si.edu. Smithsonian air and space museum. Archived from the original on July 7, 2020 . Retrieved July 6, 2020.

The Revell Kit

The kit is fundamentally flawed because it was based on the original SA-500F Facilities Integration Vehicle, a test version of the Saturn V which never flew. (Any Apollo buff can tell that, immediately, from the paint pattern featured on the box art.) The sad thing is that Revell have never revised the kit, despite reissuing it a regular intervals, including this year’s 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. So the kit includes parts, decals and painting instructions that are inaccurate for any of the Apollo flights, because based on an early test article. It also includes things that are just plain inaccurate—wrongly placed and wrongly sized parts, and incorrect alignments of each stage with its neighbours. About 38 seconds after the second stage ignition the Saturn V switched from a preprogrammed trajectory to a "closed loop" or Iterative Guidance Mode. The instrument unit now computed in real time the most fuel-efficient trajectory toward its target orbit. If the instrument unit failed, the crew could switch control of the Saturn to the command module's computer, take manual control, or abort the flight. [35] Given the age of the kit there is some excess flash plastic that’ll need to be removed from the parts and you can probably see this in the photos. Detail sprues Loff, Sarah (April 17, 2015). "Apollo 11 Mission Overview". nasa.gov. NASA. Archived from the original on February 9, 2018 . Retrieved June 26, 2020.