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Reply #2420 on:
04/04/2024 08:00 pm »
Hello everybody,
in contrast to my last post, today is again a day of joyful remembrance of
Challenger's maiden flight STS-6
41 years ago,
Source: retrospaceimages.com (STS-6)
L-R: Donald Peterson †, Paul Weitz †,
Story Musgrave,
Karol Bobko †
Source: wikipedia.org
to which I have dedicated my
long-term project
, with which I'm going already into the
13th year
, hard to believe, but true.
BTW
13
is my lucky number, also because my son
Andreas
was born on a Friday, April 13, 1979.
With this in mind, I hope to make a lot of progress with my project this year.
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We are here brother, we haven't gone anywhere....
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Reply #2422 on:
04/05/2024 06:15 pm »
Thanks Elmer and all my other faithful friends for looking in on me again.
Great that you are waiting for my
Return to STS-6 Tour
, in a short while I'll be seen here more often again.
Until then, take a look at my
Psyche Space Probe
thread, which is a bit simpler but also not uninteresting.
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Reply #2423 on:
04/05/2024 06:25 pm »
Dude, your work is too awesome to miss, I never forget to lurk and check on it regularly =)
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Thanks Naito for your nice words and stay tuned as before.
The show must and will go on.
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Reply #2425 on:
04/19/2024 02:29 pm »
Hello friends,
today is a memorable day because the sonic barrier of
1 Million Views
has now been broken unnoticed in the
NSF Forum
too!
I'm deeply impressed by your continued interest in my work and would like to express my thanks and appreciation for it.
I hope you stay tuned and continue loyal to me, and for myself I hope being able to enjoy all of you with new interesting progress soon.
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Reply #2426 on:
08/20/2024 09:46 pm »
Hello friends,
today I have to deliver sad news to all friends of
Real Space Modeling
.
As I just found out, my long-time friend,
John O'Connor
, is the brilliant creator of the
360° panoramas
on the
nasatech.net website
, passed in May at the age of 75.
I had just emailed him that I was coming back to
Florida
and to the
KSC
in October to meet with him, and I was surprised that he didn't reply. Unfortunately, we weren't able to meet up last year during
NASA's Psyche Mission launch
. Now his death is a sad certainty. May he rest in peace ...
Meanwhile I have learned that he was buried at the
Riverview Memorial Gardens in Cocoa
, where I want to do honour to him if I can find his grave.
I first asked my friend
James MacLaren
, who already knew and confirmed it. He also knew him and was also very impressed by his panoramas.
As you know, I have linked many of his unique panoramas to images in my
STS-6 report
what are for my
Scratch building
were an invaluable resource. It is a detailed compendium of American Space missions for the last 25 years.
An tribute of his colleagues can be found on the website
DEDICATED TO JOHN O'CONNOR
.
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Reply #2427 on:
08/26/2024 06:09 pm »
Hello friends,
meanwhile I have inquired about John's grave at
Riverview Memorial Gardens in Cocoa
and a staff member will direct me to it so I can do honour to him during my vacation in October.
FOREVER REMEMBERED ...
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09/01/2024 10:26 am »
Hello friends,
I could hardly believe it myself and had to scroll far back to find my last post from
Payload Canister
to pick up my thread at that time again.
Back then it was about the painting the four ladders for both side walls,
with which I can now finally move on.
Everything was prepared, the ladders are waiting still on their holders,
just like the
Dummy
that I wanted to test with beforehand.
First of all, I've checked the white paint,
Aqua Color (36301)
, which was anything but sprayable after such a long time and had to be prepared and tested accordingly.
More on that later, when you're awake.
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Reply #2429 on:
09/02/2024 07:20 pm »
Hello everybody,
since I haven't done anything with
Airbrush
for a long time, I had to slowly get back to it and get my colors going again.
That's why I had to dilute my still unused can of
White, Aqua Color (36301)
again and test it according to the tried and tested test by
Heinz Wagner, Ø ≥ 11 mm
.
Source: Heinz Wagner
To do this, I first diluted the paint with
Aqua Color Mix
in a
ratio of 2:1
and then let drip down a drop of it from a height of
30 cm
, which produced a blob of paint with a
Ø = 13 mm (see below on the sheet)
, which is perhaps a little too large, but should at least be spray-able.
With the color set in this way, I went to my
airbrush room
, have clamped the exhaust hose into the window,
and first primed the individual
dummy
with my smaller
Revell Airbrush-Basic Set
,
and then the remaining ladders too.
Since the opacity was not yet sufficient, I went into the garage and still sprayed one or two more coats on both sides with the
Tamiya Color spray can
from a distance of approx. 30 cm,
which ultimately resulted in satisfactory coverage.
At this point I got out of the
Payload Canister
about a year ago before starting my
Florida trip
.
Today I can now provisionally lay down the painted ladders too,
wherewith I'm quite happy.
So I can now safely glue the ladders together with the other details onto the
Payload Canister
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Reply #2430 on:
09/08/2024 09:46 pm »
Dear friends,
today the next sad news reached me.
As I've learned from her husband Stephen, his dear wife, my friend
Judy Gale Roberts
, passed last week, the gifted
Intarsia artist
from Tennessee who
in 2019
created this unique work of art
Apollo 11 - 50th Anniversary Intarsia - For All Mankind
on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing by Apollo 11.
On July 19, I've congratulated her on her birthday and wished her all the best, and now the painful news of her passing.
While she was working with her team on this
Intarsia Project
, I was in close contact with her and was totally surprised and overwhelmed by her gesture when she gave me an
Eagle feather
with her signature that time,
which I had with me last year during my visit to the
Apollo/Saturn V Center
,
Source: NASA, KSC Visitor Complex
and had held it in front of her Intarsia
For All Mankind
which is on display there.
May she rest in peace forever ...
R. I. P.
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Reply #2431 on:
09/10/2024 10:48 pm »
Hello everybody,
although the sad thoughts about the sudden death of
Judy Gale Roberts
are still running through my head, I want to continue with the
Payload Canister
, where, in addition to attaching the fragile ladders, various other small parts are waiting for me.
Doing so I have to think about a sensible order, though, because the canister becomes more and more unwieldy with each detail and I have to consider the required support surface for assembly so that nothing can break off.
That's why I had to go back a long way in my construction report to be able to recapitulate and take into account the problems I had identified at the time.
As I pointed out in my
Reply #2220
at the time, the canister on my
Diorama
will only be seen in
Vertical Transport Mode
, i.e. standing upright on the
PLC Transporter
, as was shown in the images at the time,
Source: Space Shuttle News Reference (NTR Server, 1981)
like here leaving the
Vertical Processing Facility (VPF)
.
Source: retrospaceimages.com (STS-6)
Therefore I now have to take another closer look at the fastening points of the
Payload Container
to the
Vertical Transportation Support Plates & Clevises
provided for it on the
Transporter
,
Source: NASA
in order to be able to glue the thin
Tie-down Lug Plates
onto the container in the next step, whereby at the same time they have to fit easily into the fork-shaped
Clevises
, which in turn are shoved into the transportation plates and screwed to them.
Source: NASA (STS-132)
So I immediately got the
PLC Transporter
out of the garage and put the
container
on it to remind myself of the tricky circumstances after such a long time.
And these are the
Vertical Transportation Support Plates
on the transporter, which are now coming back into focus.
Source: NASA (STS-135)
And here are the neatly stored tiny little parts for the four attachment points on the transporter, although I can't remember to their numbering on it, and have to find my notes first.
These are the parts from
Box I
, together with the two
stop holders
and the
spike
that sits on top of the container and was briefly seen in one of the images (STS-132).
And here is the
Tie-down Lug Plate
inserted into the
Clevis
,
which then has to be glued onto the container with its narrow lower edge, which I have a bit of respect for already.
So much for a first look back at the tricky problems.
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Reply #2432 on:
09/20/2024 11:24 pm »
Hello everybody,
after the view has slowly become sharper again, we should continue.
In this image one can see one of the four
Tie-down Lug Plates
for the
Vertical Transportation Mode
, which I now have to glue to the container.
Source: NASA (STS-130)
To do this, I now have to take another look at which of the four attachment points on the transporter the collected
plate sets I-IV
belong to, which is why I first had to search through the building report from that time.
An important orientation point is the
Spike
on top of the front wall (
Forward Bulkhead
) of the
Payload Canister (PLC)
, which always points in the direction of travel of the transporter with the canister standing upright to the
Launch Pad
.
Source: Space Shuttle News Reference (NTR Server, 1981)
So I first looked at my building report images from two years ago again. If you want to follow this again,
from
Reply #2228
.
There you can at least see the arrangement of the transport plates for the
Vertical Transportation Mode
, here the larger of the two plates (at the front in the direction of travel) with two sliding shoes (blue, green).
Source: NASA (STS-122)
Here you can see the smaller transport plates which sit on the underside of the
PLC front wall
,
Source: wikimedia.org (STS-132)
and have only one sliding shoe (green),
what I had to consider when mounting it on the transporter.
Here, for testing purposes, I had provisionally fitted all four transport plates for the
Vertical Transportation Mode
with their sliding shoes and placed the four
hold-down clevises
besides, which are inspected by the true to scale
fireman (1:160)
.
And with that, I have now arrived at the point of my retrospect that shows the container on the transporter standing in
Vertical Transportation Mode
between the transport plates,
where I can now continue and glue all the individual parts together, although I have to remember that I still have to be able to remove the container in order to can glue the remaining details on the side walls.
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Reply #2433 on:
09/22/2024 12:17 am »
Hello my friends,
it's time to give you a little advance notice today.
There will be a break at the end of next week, because I am starting then to my
Return to KSC Tour 2024 (28th Sept. - 2nd. Nov.)
via Washington D.C., Huntsville, Alabama, Cocoa Beach, Everglades, Fort Meyers, St. Petersburg, Tampa and back to Cocoa Beach,
and therefore I will be absent on my construction sites for 5 weeks …
But I will be back then because the show must go on here.
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Reply #2434 on:
09/22/2024 12:20 am »
As I've said before brother, ENJOY! your trip!!!!
We will be here... Take lots of pictures.... {chuckle}
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Reply #2435 on:
09/22/2024 12:52 am »
Thanks Elmer,
I hope so and will enjoy it, although I have a full schedule, including the
SpaceX Falcon 9 Heavy launch
for
NASA's Europa Clipper mission on October 10
, for which I have already secured a ticket for the
Apollo Saturn V Center's viewing point
.
Source: NASA
I hope I'm lucky and the launch isn't postponed again,
because it's our wedding anniversary and my lovely wife will be watching from above ...
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Reply #2436 on:
09/25/2024 11:05 pm »
Hello everybody,
after a thorough study of my former posts, I was able to recap the assignment of the stored
plate sets I-IV
to the four attachment points on the transporter.
Then I took the
Transporter
and the
Payload Canister
out of the cupboard, which is standing here in the direction of travel.
As one can see in the image, the larger transport plates are located at the front in the direction of travel.
Then I've tried to push the
Hold-down Clevis
into the rear
transport plate (IV)
, but only managed to go about halfway, what immediately reminded me of the problems I had already back then with the
accuracy of fit
.
Apparently the two openings in the transport plate are too narrow and need to be reworked so that the hold-down clevis has more play when pushed in.
The same problems occurred on the larger front
transport plate (I)
, when I tried to carefully pull the hold-down clevis out again, but this failed whereby one of the plates broke off.
And already I'm back in the middle of the stressful fiddling around of handling these tiny parts and have to get used to proceeding with extreme caution and not doing anything rash what could have dire consequences.
For example, using my beloved
Cent coin
for the size comparison almost proved to be as my undoing, as it is magnetic, which means that it can suddenly jump to the magnets holding the transporter and can cause damage to the surrounding area.
The same disaster can happen when positioning tiny parts with ordinary tweezers, which are also magnetic and suddenly get attracted, causing parts to jump off never to be seen again, which I can also tell you a thing or two about it, which is why I have to use non-magnetic tweezers from
Master Tools
.
Now I first have to think about a suitable
mini sanding strip (1,4 mm wide)
with which I can rework the
bottom opening (0,4 mm x 1,4 mm)
of the transportation support plate.
At some point I had bought some thin and narrow
sanding sticks
, but I don't remember where they came from or where I put them ...
In return I was able to remove the
Hold-down clevis (IV)
out off the plate without damaging it,
but now I have to glue the other one back together, which will become also a tricky task.
That's why I'll stop now, because excessive zeal doesn't help.
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Reply #2437 on:
09/26/2024 06:39 pm »
Hello everybody,
since I will be leaving for
Washington D.C.
the day after tomorrow for the first stop on my this year's USA trip, it's time to pack my bags, which is why I urgently need to make a break here, and will report back to you when I'll be back home on November 2nd.
Have a good time and stay healthy my friends.
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Reply #2438 on:
10/05/2024 08:32 am »
Hello my friends,
Greetings from Rocket City Huntsville, Alabama.
I'm at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center every day and I'm totally amazed, especially by the upright standing Saturn V!
Thursday evening there was a special highlight, the "German beer garden" under the Saturn V, an incredible experience. I was totally thrilled.
On Monday I'm flying to Orlando and driving to Cocoa Beach in my rental car and will visit the KSC Visitor Complex again.
Stay healthy all together!
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You better put that off my friend. We will get hit by a hurricane on Wednesday and people will start evactuating as early as Monday. It will leave the area on Thursday.
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