03-13-2018, 10:29 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by BEC
Yeah - I came home with one of those as well. Interesting combination of parts and the payload section is what sold me.
Pat Fitzpatrick (with whom I was traveling) saw it just as we walked out and wondered what it would take to have a “Museum of Flight” rocket.
I should have bought two of them, so I could build one and keep one. But I just bought the one.
The rest of the souvenirs I got for other family members were all wearable things (for wife, youngest daughter, three grandkids).
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There was, and maybe still is, an Estes U.S. Space Camp model rocket kit (whose name escapes me--it may have been posted about here on YORF), but it was/is the Reliant kit with a different decor scheme and different packaging (like Centuri's Akela-1 for the Scouts, which was later offered to the general public as the Viking kit). The "Space Center Houston" kit looks like it might use a different-length body tube than the other Estes kits that incorporate those plastic fins and nose cone (although I haven't compared dimensions between them), plus it includes a clear payload tube and "nose block."
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