SM EVA Hand Rails Built, other Details Added

The hand rails for the CM pilot’s space walk are now built. Soldering small pieces of wire togethre on that scale was a little harder than I expected: I’m a bit out of practice with that stuff, alas. But, they’re done, look at least okay (maybe even better), and are half painted. (Why paint silver-colored […]

Sorting Ullage Rockets and Retro Rockets

Which craft do I model: Apollo 8, 9, 11, 13, or 15? Not so trivial a decision, if I really want to have a reasonably accurate model. The S-IC stages had retro rockets. All of these missions used 8, except for Apollo 15, which used only 4. Some of the S-II stages used ullage rockets: […]