Final 50th anniversary celebration photo – the command module and service module on the way home after transearth orbit injection. (I think it’s 1/100 scale)

This model is 1/72 scale – I added things like the gold foil from sweetie wrappers!

Another excuse to display one of my old models. This is the command module and service module. docked to the lunar module, at the time the service module engine fired to put the spacecraft into lunar orbit.

I didn’t expect to see this as the forecast earlier in the day predicted cloud. However it cleared allowing me to take photos of the moon low in the southern sky.

Taken at about 2345BST. (1/1000s, f/5.6, 200mm focal length)

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission – here’s my Saturn V model appropriately posed! Continue reading →