Instead of just getting a look at the future through cool NASA graphics, now you can actually beat them to the future! That’s right, you can fly NASA’s next generation of manned boosters before it is ever off the drawing board! This is the Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicle, affectionately dubbed “The Stick.” Using a single shuttle Solid Rocket Booster and a liquid fueled second stage, The Stick is proposed to send the new Crew Exploration Vehicle into earth orbit. Of course professional astronauts will climb on top of anything and be shot into space and The Stick pretty much will peg their Anything-O- meter.





                       

When you fly this model, you’ll think that it too is going into earth orbit. This model is scaled to match our Space Shuttle model just like the real thing. It is a VERY high flyer- with low drag and very high speed. It can be flown on an “A” “B” or “C” engine and shoots like an arrow. Landing is by a 6 inch parachute, not because the model is small, but because we’d like you to have a reasonable chance of getting it back to make another flight. It features CEV wraps taken from the latest NASA graphics of the proposed Stick and an upper stage wrap that looks just like the external tank foam that is proposed for the real thing. We’ve even taken photos and then doctored them to look like the real thing. We sent them to NASA who said “Who are you and why do you keep sending us this nonsense- don’t you know we’re busy… we’re NASA for crying out loud.” When ready to fly, The Stick stands just over 16.5 inches tall (our model of it that is… we hear that the real thing is planned to be slightly larger) This will be the second element of our set of US launchers that are all in the same scale, the Shuttle, The Stick, and the heavy lift SDLV In-Line.