Season's Greeting from South Dakota

Drones from Silent Running

These are the drones that were in the movie Silent Running.

Their nick names were Drone 1 (Dewey) Drone 2 (Huey) and Drone 3 (Louie) 

The main human character in the movie was Freeman Lowell who was played by Bruce Dern.

The movie was directed by Douglas Trumbull and came out in 1972.

The ship the movie takes place on was called the Valley Forge. It was near the planet Saturn.

In the movie the drones were taught to play poker. 

There were four human crewmen on the Valley Forge.

A couple of side notes for the movie, Joan Baez sang the theme song and Joseph Campanella was the voice of the Berkshire' Captain, he was  uncredited. 

JP Aerospace Blog posted my video I made of my Gemini model taken to the edge of space.

Here is link to my video:

https://youtu.be/ZHSB8GEbJrc

Mars Rovers

In the middle of August I had built the mars rover Curiosity, This weekend I built it's cousins Sojourner and Opportunity.

1/24 scale Mars rovers, Curiosity,  Sojourner and Opportunity

1/24 scale Mars rovers, Curiosity,  Sojourner and Opportunity

1/24 scale Mars rovers, Curiosity,  Sojourner and Opportunity with soda can to show scale.

 Neil Armstrong
(August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012)


First human to walk on the moon. . . .R.I.P.

A little movie I made of my rover model

MSL Curiosity Rover 1/24 scale

Hubble Space Telescope

This is Ton's Hubble Model that I did in 1/144 scale

Man on the Moon model 1/12 scale

More pictures (Moon Man)

Apollo CM/SM

Made Ton's Apollo CM/SM using foil tape.

 

1/48 model of Gemini returns to South Dakota from trip to edge of space

This is the 1/48 scale model of the Gemini spacecraft that went to the edge of space.
It was returned to me by my friend Dale.

New models that I built this weekend

Space models that I have built

Here are pictures of my model of the 1/24 scale Gemini spacecraft on display at the local museum.
  (note this is not the model that went to the edge of space)

Today (Friday May 18th) I dropped off a model of a Gemini spacecraft that I was asked to build for a exhibit at the local museum. The exhibit will start next Friday the 25th of May. It is going to be about the "60's" I will post pictures of the exhibit when it is on display.

Photos of Gemini model taken to the edge of space

Gemini model being mounted on platform

The platform with other objects mounted

Liftoff!!

Gemini model at the edge of space (note the moon in background of picture)

Gemini model at the edge of space (note the moon in background of picture)

Gemini model at the edge of space (note the moon in background of picture)

Gemini model at the edge of space

Gemini model at the edge of space

Gemini model at the edge of space

Gemini model at the edge of space

The balloon bursts

Area in Nevada where platform landed