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bigwad73 [2015-01-22 06:30:44 +0000 UTC]

www.spacelaunchreport.com/SA20…

That's an image of the Saturn Ib at the KSC Visitor Center.

Though...  Something odd is going on in the interstage area between the first stage and second stage.  It looks flat.  There should be a small adapter between the stages, as shown in this image:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_I…

But just as I always think when I see your work, great image!

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Midway2009 [2015-01-18 03:05:05 +0000 UTC]

Great work on the details.

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voradtralundir [2015-01-18 00:31:08 +0000 UTC]

You captured this nicely.  I recently visited NASA's Kennedy Space Center and saw the Apollo Saturn V Exhibit, again.  It's always impressive and this time was no different than the other four or five times I have been there.  I was telling people how I made a model for myself when I was 14 years old out of cardboard tubes and Estes Saturn1B parts that stood 5'2" tall.  I even had a Mobile Launch Tower I constructed on top of a Bulldozer Base that was battery powered and moved.  I couldn't keep it when I moved from my childhood home after graduating college in 1982.  It was disheartening to have to say good bye to it.  So I was telling people about a model inside the exhibit about how "Mine was Bigger". 

Then we rode back to the Visitors Center with a very animated Bus Driver who told us about growing up in Titusville where he got to see as a child the launch of the first Saturn V in 1964, and how the sound of the launch shook the ground and reverberated in his chest, and cracked a window in his home.  And he invited me and my 80 year old parents back in 2018 for the first launch of the SLS.

So inside the Visitor's Center Gift Shop I was buying presents for the two little girls I cared for in 2013 when I came across the models they had for sale.  And there in front of me was a 1:72 scale Model of the Saturn V, fully assembled and hand painted and die cast.  I brought my 82 year old mother over - she was as tall as my model Saturn V - and I showed the model to her and proclaimed "There is a God".

I couldn't afford to buy the model at this time, it's enough to know it exists - and that I will be back to get it in the future.

Never give up on your love for Space Exploration and your love of Spacecraft and Starships.  We're going to Mars and beyond.

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