Star Trek: TOS Communicator

Here are pictures of the Star Trek: TOS Communicator (Beta Version) from Michael Haggard.

I built it as a gift to a friend who is a big Star Trek fan.

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