🏛️ Architecture & Design 8h ago · Sarang Sheth

This $56 DIY space shuttle has gears, glowing engines, and zero subtlety

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This $56 DIY space shuttle has gears, glowing engines, and zero subtlety
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A fun bit of trivia for ruining dinner parties: NASA never tilted its space shuttles upright at the launch pad. The orbiters were stacked vertically inside a giant building in Florida and crawled out to the pad already standing, at roughly one mile per hour. ROKR’s wooden Space Shuttle kit does the dramatic tilt anyway, and honestly, good call. The 446-piece model uses a motor and a gear rack to swing its orbiter from horizontal to vertical before a light-show countdown. It costs $59.99, a

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