![]() Details abound on the SRBs and for the most part they seem really faithful to their real-life counterparts. Where it is metal is the rocket nozzle near the bottom. The Solid Rocket boosters are fairly light and mostly composed of plastic. I would assume this was done to replicate the texture of the insulation foam found on the real external fuel tank used in shuttle launches. I have noticed that the surface of the tank is very sand paper like. Making the external fuel tank extremely top heavy. The top cone above the tank’s ring seems to contain solid metal inside. The External fuel tank is by far the largest and heaviest component in the set. What follows are the components of the Shuttle set The attention to detail with just packaging alone is just pure awesome! The plastic stands for the whole shuttle and the orbiter even have separate boxes for their respective pieces. Inside the box everything is packaged very well with both foam covers and casing as well as plastic for the smaller more delicate parts. Encased in a cardboard box with an exterior cardboard sleeve, the whole package is fairly large as seen in the comparison shot with the coke can. It would probably have been cheaper to get if I had ordered from another seller off Ebay, but i wanted to buy from a reputable seller that could get access to spare parts should any QC issues appear in my set that required an exchange or request for extra parts.Īnywho, I must say the design of the packaging for this set is extremely well thought out. ![]() I ordered this from Hobby Link Japan, a model kit and figure distributor located just a few hours outside of Tokyo. With taxes and shipping, this shuttle cost me just about $640 to acquire. It didn’t cost nearly as much to buy this beauty of a set, but as far as aircraft/aerospace models go, this thing cost a bundle. This set was a monster to pay for as it was for the actual Space Shuttle program which cost the U.S government billions upon billions of dollars to develop and run. Please look forward to reading through all of these parts with plenty of pictures to go around. Part 3 will cover re-entry preparations and landing. Part 2 will cover the features of the orbiter itself when up in orbit. Part 1 will cover the individual components of the shuttle from orbiter, to external fuel tank to solid rocket boosters. Aside from that general timeline, though, there’s no opening date yet for the expansion.Bandai Space Shuttle Endeavour Review Part 1Īlright, so here I am with the first part of a multiple edition review of the new Otona No Chogokin Bandai Space Shuttle Endeavour. A year and a half in, Endeavour will be taken off display and moved into the new Air and Space Center, which will then continue to be built around the orbiter. With construction now technically underway, the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center is expected to take three years to construct. Samuel Oschin Family Foundation between that and other donations, it’s currently raised $280 million of its $400 million goal. Its forthcoming home comes thanks to the museum’s largest-ever gift from the Mr. One of only three remaining space shuttle orbiters that’ve been to space and back (and the only one on display on the West Coast), Endeavour first left Earth’s surface in 1992 and, after 25 flights, was retired in 2011. ![]() The new 20-story building, which will occupy an area in Exposition Park between the existing museum and the California African American Museum, will double the Science Center’s display space, with 150 exhibits (including additional aircraft and spacecraft) across three level of galleries dedicated to flight and the exploration of the universe. Rendering: Courtesy ZGF/California Science Center Rendering: Courtesy ZGF/California Science Center Rendering: Courtesy ZGF/California Science Center Renderings of the space show guests able to gawk at the ship from various vertical levels: from below the engines all the way up to above the nose on a glass-bottomed platform, with two stops in between. On Wednesday, the California Science Center broke ground on the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, a 200,000-square-foot add-on to the museum that’ll display Endeavour, an orange external fuel tank and a pair of rocket boosters in a vertical, ready-to-launch position. Now, that new home is finally on the horizon. ![]() in 2012, Endeavour has been housed horizontally in a tightly-fitted temporary structure at the museum, with a small model that’s teased its eventual permanent digs for about the past decade. It was built in Palmdale, flew about 123 million miles around the Earth and then eventually returned home for its retirement, where it was jubilantly paraded across city streets and into its final resting place at the California Science Center. Who’s had the toughest commute in all of L.A.? Sorry 405 stalwarts, but it’s the Space Shuttle Endeavour. ![]()
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