Updates of kit instructions
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If anyone tells you
that SA-5 was not the coolest rocket ever flown they are only
demonstrating their lack of taste in rocket coolness. Such people are
likely to be found at the local Whatever Mart buying one of those
buy-n-fly kits with plastic fins. We urge you not to talk further to them
as you can lose I.Q. points just standing too close to such people.
Instead, you should buy this kit right now and regain those points that
you may have already lost. SA-5 was the first of the Saturn I, Block II
vehicles. Launched on January 29, 1964 it was one of a kind. Rather than an Apollo spacecraft, SA-5 carried a really pointy Jupiter nose cone. This kit, although being ant-scale, is very close to actual scale -- in fact it’s as close as we could get it without having to get any smarter ourselves. The kit is in scale with our other Saturn I, Block II and our Saturn IB. It stands just under 13 inches tall (just for luck) and comes with a nosecone that is so pointy, when you hold it in your hand you’ll hear your father’s voice saying “Be careful you don’t put someone’s eye out with that.” Rumor has it that when JFK visited Cape Canaveral and saw the real SA-5 on the pad he pointed toward the nose cone and told von Braun, “Be careful you don’t put someone’s eye out with that. You’ll also get the Dr. Zooch instruction booklet, where Dr. Zooch himself, from the crazy spaceflight cartoon strip “The Program,” guides you through some madcap instructions that are almost more fun than the rocket itself. This kit is part of the line of Dr. Zooch rockets and there are plenty more where this came from. So you can buy it, build it, crash it and WHO CARES!, we’ll sell you another one! Just be careful you don’t put someone’s eye out with it. |
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