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I've been working on a model of the legendary three-stage ferry rocket created by Wernher von Braun and others for a 1952 Collier's Magazine series about … more »

I've been working on a model of the legendary three-stage ferry rocket created by Wernher von Braun and others for a 1952 Collier's Magazine series about the conquest of space. I thought I'd take it for a little test
spin.

This was how the future looked to an entire generation of space-struck kids. The spaceships and space stations from the Colliers articles permeated both fiction and non-fiction media well into the 1960s, when the first REAL spacecraft started going up. What a blow it was to space fans to discover that the first orbital craft would be tiny cans that didn't even have wings!

The textures are still rough and only the first-stage engines work right now. When I have everything sorted out I'll post the model on ShareCG for any other Space Cadets out there. « Less