The Flickr Launchcontrol Image Generatr

When they said the new VW had "Launch Control" I don't think this is what they meant !!

We spent a day launching rockets in a big farm field near Helm in the Central Valley of California. Hundreds of high power rockets were launched in daytime. I did a single launch, a rocket made out of corks, which is always a crowd-pleaser. There were night launches too. This is the launch control at a quiet time at sunset.

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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew congratulates launch team personnel, in firing room #1 of launch control minutes after the successful launch of Apollo 17 from Complex 39-A at 12:33 am EST, December 7, 1972, with astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans, and Harrison H. Schmitt aboard. Apollo 17, NASA's sixth and final manned lunar landing mission in the Apollo program, landed within 200 feet of the targeted point in the Taurus-Littrow landing site on the lunar surface at 2:55 pm EST on December 11, 1972.

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Credit: NASA
Image Number: 72-H-1538
Date: December 7, 1972

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I bought the moon base set 60350 mostly for the large transparent cupola and the capsule of this lander to put on a rocket.

But the entire lander looked better that I expected, and I am glad to be able to use it now.

While the small shuttles are nice for a quick fly-by, this big lander is more what one would use when setting up a base.