![]() I left the main rocket engine nozzles off to allow painting. Also there’s no color information for the cockpit or the payloads. There’s no part number indicated for the cockpit interior. Here is where I ran into my first problem with the instructions. The next step is to assemble the payloads and the cockpit. They snap into place, but I wound up gluing them on. This is also where I knocked one of the control surfaces off the wing. This is where the connecting support for the 747 mounts. There was one spot where filling was necessary, the 4 holes in the bottom of the wing assembly. Everything fit cleanly and tightly with no gaps and no trimming needed, except for making very sure that all sprue connections were cleaned up completely. I was very pleasantly surprised at the quality of the engineering that went into the fuselage and wings. The control surfaces are to be trapped between the top and bottom wing parts. The first steps are to assemble the cargo bay and the fuselage sides, then put the fuselage and the wing tops onto the bottom wing. ![]() I decided that I wanted the display model, so I began the normal assembly, and prepared to paint everything. This model is also available in Dragon kit DRA 14705, which includes the 747 used to transport the shuttle from the landing area at Edwards AFB to the Kennedy Space Center. The Kitĭragon’s kit of Discovery can be built as a “cutaway”, using the clear parts to show the interiors, or as a standard display model. After Challenger was destroyed, Endeavour was built. There were originally 5 shuttles built, Enterprise, which had no orbital capability, Challenger, Columbia, Discovery and Atlantis. The missions ranged from launching satellites and interplanetary probes to delivering components for the International Space Station, and later delivering supplies and crew for the ISS. Shuttles were operated by NASA from 1981 to 2011, flying a total of 135 missions. It consisted of the space plane which went into orbit and glided back to Earth, two Solid Rocket Boosters and the expendable fuel tank. The Space Shuttle (actual name “Space Transportation System) was a reusable manned low Earth orbit vehicle.
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