May 3
Toughtober build I didn't get to: Tractor A skycrane lowering a rover to the surface
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Toughtober build I didn't get to: Tractor A skycrane lowering a rover to the surface
A couple wheeled Classic Space sets today - first is the little Surface Transport from 1983. Pretty simple and definitely in the “NASA collecting moon rocks” aesthetic. Next is 1987′s more complex Terrestrial Rover, with a neat hinged enclosure holding a little satellite. Never could find that fourth blue hinge and had to sub in a black one...
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Day 30 - Finale
A spaceship, or as the remote drivers insist on calling it, a spaceboat. The proposed Titan Submarine probe.
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Day 25 - Lasers
One of many phased-array laser emitters on the lunar surface which formed the beginning of the beamed-power network.
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Day 28 - Exploration
A tiny probe sub makes first contact under Europa's ice
The Campbell Clipper, "HMS Experience"
(they call it a Clipper Ship because that Ship be Clipping through the bottle)
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Day 10 - Convoy Based on the North American Rockwell "Prime Movers"
ATHLETE rover - Technical Featuring a KRUSTY reactor, phase-change-cooled machine gun, and selection of microgravity hand-to-hand weapons (1) along with a directed-gas pistol (2) and my old spacer carbine (3) 1. https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astromilitary.php#id--Space_Marines--Microgravity_Hand-to-Hand_Combat
2. https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/sidearmslug.php#id--Slugthrowers--Vacuum_Firearms
3. https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/sidearmslug.php#wiolant
This one was the most steampunk contraption, so naturally I put the kilopower reactor on it like a steam engine