Fully assembled R-7 Luna
Close-up of engines
Although it is made and sold in the USA, it's the one for you if you are
longing for those good old days of the Cold War. Those thrilling days of
the late 1950s and very early 1960s when the Soviets were able to fly
space missions, apparently as easily as catching a bus, while the US
rockets remained rooted to the ground like oak trees... (sort of like the
last couple of years)... this kit will make you want to wear drab
itchy woolen clothing, join the army to play hockey, drink vodka and stand in long lines for toilet paper. The kit stands ~ 12 inches tall when
completed- unless you are looking to use it for propaganda purposes to
enhance your personal standing in the world view- then you place it close
to the camera lens while you stand back 300 feet behind it- and it
appears life size. The kit uses 18 mm B or C s in the business end and
requires average skill to build- until after you've finished it- then you
tell everyone that it was the combined skill set that was given to you
by the socialist party that allowed you to make this glorious creation
which will now send a probe to the moon. This too will enhance your
standing in the world view- because most people walking the planet now as just as gullible as the ones who walked the earth during the days of the
Cold War. So buy it, build it and enhance your stature in world opinion
It's either that of fade away and become a non-person. Anyhow- buy it
and remember what the Russians learned that the Americans forgot... when you've got a reliable workhorse booster... stick with it! For those of you who don't understand that- the basic R-7 booster that lofted
Sputnik, Luna and Vostok- today sends people to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz, while we in the US can't even build a Saturn IB anymore.
