Even though I'm on vacation, I always take a few models to work on. Since today marked LRO going into orbit around the moon, I thought I'd do something to commemorate the event.

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how doyou get your knives and such through the airport? Nice proportions and detailing.

Don't take a plane? This is at an RV park in Destin Florida werestaying at. It's a really nice place with the ocen only a few hundred feet a away.

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Aim high (but don't blow yourself up)!- Homer Hickam

In Soviet Russia, UFO report you!- Phil Plait

Carl Sagan may have seen a pale blue dot, but I see a sapphire.- Doug Phillips, Discovering Alabama.

Clear skies Maksutov.

Nice!

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Where did you get the label, that's an infringement. I've reported you to the CIA, NASA, BAUT, I kid, I kid.
Nice model.

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For anyone who's interested here's the link to the model itself
http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/LRO_PaperModel.pdf

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Aim high (but don't blow yourself up)!- Homer Hickam

In Soviet Russia, UFO report you!- Phil Plait

Carl Sagan may have seen a pale blue dot, but I see a sapphire.- Doug Phillips, Discovering Alabama.

Clear skies Maksutov.

And downstate a bit, while inside dodging the heat - here's something that I could put together in between bits of digital paperwork. The Kepler paper model includes the support spider for the detectors, and with a bit of clear plastic you can mimic the Schmidt correcting lens. I drew the line at the optional instructions for vacuum-shapong sheet aluminum to mach the curve of the primary mirror.

There really is a marvelous assortment of paper kits for spacecraft available out there. I tend to save the files as I find them, since these things do occasionally disappear from the web. I've used Cassini and Deep Impact in classes and public talks, and Kepler may yet be useful for that as well. But these won't fly...

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Very nice!

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Aim high (but don't blow yourself up)!- Homer Hickam

In Soviet Russia, UFO report you!- Phil Plait

Carl Sagan may have seen a pale blue dot, but I see a sapphire.- Doug Phillips, Discovering Alabama.

Clear skies Maksutov.

I should use some plastic for my Hubble.

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When you're standing on the edge of nowhere, there's only one way up...
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek