Excellent work, Mike! Another fine addition to your "Weird Gemini" series! (Though "Gemini Applications Program" would be a more fair title.) Thinking more on it, you probably could have used the stock "McDonnell Douglas" decals since the two companies merged in 1967; the same year Phillip Bono proposed this design, according to the Fantastic Plastic website. If actually built, by the time it was ready for flight, the markings for McDonnell Douglas would have worked. (I wonder what a 21st Century iteration would look like with the capsule covered in Space Shuttle tiles instead of Rene-41 shingles, and markings that said, "Boeing" . . . ?) I'm curious: Was the SASSTO Gemini capsule supposed to stay attached to the S-IVB stage for the entire flight profile, or would the crewed capsule have detached in orbit and returned on its own? If not, was the retro module retained as a launch-escape system? 12th like.
Bono had been working on this concept at Douglas well before the merger. The original artwork has just the "Douglas" logo with the bug artwork, so I went with that.
Sergeant Pedantic Sez...McDonnell and Douglas Merged in 1967, so if this spacecraft had ever gone forward, by the time it flew it would have been McDonnell/Douglas 😎
Hey man, excellent model as always, I was wondering if you have å video on your channel with all your models? if you don't would be awsome to see all of them!
@@spacecitymike Oh i don't think i've seen that one, now I have to watch it. But yes it would be incredible to se a new video of all the models side by side. Anyways keep up the incredible work!
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Looking so good Michael! Thank you for sharing. Now I need a warmer for my decal water
Another great one!
Excellent work, Mike! Another fine addition to your "Weird Gemini" series! (Though "Gemini Applications Program" would be a more fair title.)
Thinking more on it, you probably could have used the stock "McDonnell Douglas" decals since the two companies merged in 1967; the same year Phillip Bono proposed this design, according to the Fantastic Plastic website. If actually built, by the time it was ready for flight, the markings for McDonnell Douglas would have worked. (I wonder what a 21st Century iteration would look like with the capsule covered in Space Shuttle tiles instead of Rene-41 shingles, and markings that said, "Boeing" . . . ?)
I'm curious: Was the SASSTO Gemini capsule supposed to stay attached to the S-IVB stage for the entire flight profile, or would the crewed capsule have detached in orbit and returned on its own? If not, was the retro module retained as a launch-escape system?
12th like.
Bono had been working on this concept at Douglas well before the merger. The original artwork has just the "Douglas" logo with the bug artwork, so I went with that.
Sergeant Pedantic Sez...McDonnell and Douglas Merged in 1967, so if this spacecraft had ever gone forward, by the time it flew it would have been McDonnell/Douglas 😎
Hey man, excellent model as always, I was wondering if you have å video on your channel with all your models? if you don't would be awsome to see all of them!
I think I have an introductory video that is sort of a tour of my hobby room, but it's several years old. Maybe I should do another one like that.
@@spacecitymike Oh i don't think i've seen that one, now I have to watch it. But yes it would be incredible to se a new video of all the models side by side. Anyways keep up the incredible work!