space station Skylab

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this is Skylab the first US space station this one is special to me as while working for McDonald Douglass as a engineer on the real one it is the last project that i worked on with my Father you will see that i have both solar panels depicted because this is the way it was supposed to deploy the one panel did not deploy because of and i get real angry with this we the engineers told the people who built the panels not to grease the mechanism it was designed to deploy with out grease they did not listen and guess what they greased it anyways the stand can be found here http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1629138 it was a sheer miracle that with a lot of coxing one deployed "PEPPOL LISTEN TO YOUR ENGINEERS" set the supports to on on the first half only 2 realy small spots under the radio dish on the command module on cut 2 no nead to even clean them up after the print