Dragon 1/72 Apollo 11 Lunar Approach

Post by **aferguson** » Wed Jan 01, 2014 5:58 pm

i received one of these pre-built models from Hobby Link Japan and just opened it. Quite nice. Surprised how nice it is in fact as i'm generally not a big fan of Dragon's stuff.

Anyway, it's 1/72 so fits in nicely with my aircraft of that scale. As i was doing a bit of research i learned an interesting factoid: the CSM/LM combination (as portrayed by the Dragon model) travelled to the moon backwards (ie with the rear end of the Command Service Module pointing at the moon and the Lunar Module pointing towards Earth). The unit was oriented this way after the CSM docked with the LM shortlly after blast off. It never turned around again and so travelled all the way 'backwards'. Not really what i expected. I guess they didn't really have to see where they were going as the flight path was pre-calculated but it still seems an unusual way to fly...