 And we're focusing on Pete Conrad! Hey guys, I'm with Pete Conrad too! Um, okay, let me just balance the camera slightly. Sorry, sorry, I tried to learn how to schedule these things, but guys, check out this awesome Pete Conrad doll. I need a pen or something to balance this. All right, hang on, hang on. We're getting there, we're getting there. Okay. Is it showing up on the screen? I don't see anything. Well, darn, okay. I need to do it at a quick time. Okay, so, uh, no, let me, here, let me try this again. Okay. Um, hey guys, um, I can't see the screen yet, so I'm very unsure whether or not you guys are saying hello to me, um, but I will hope that you're all saying hi. I'm trying to use the back camera because the better camera is for the front camera. Um, but my screen mirroring is not working, but anyways, I want to introduce you to my good friend Lyle! Lyle? Hi everybody. Oh, I should move Pete Conrad out of the way. Ah! This is my good friend Lyle. Lyle, uh, we can say you work for NASA. Yeah, we can. Lyle works for NASA, which is why he's the perfect person. Lyle, okay, Lyle works for NASA, but he also is a far more avid rocket builder than I am, model rocket builder than I am, because I've done, you guys have seen, I've done like two in the last year. Um, so I thought he'd be a great person to not only help me build models because I don't know what I'm doing, as we all saw with my like, here's the finished V2 from last time. Beautiful. The V2, thank you, yes. This is a snap together model and I was struggling to get it together. So we're gonna avoid that, but also I realized that I don't know, and there's also construction going on upstairs today, apparently, I'm really sorry, but I also realized that I don't know that things like different types of paint because I did have the experience ones where I used paint that promptly peeled right off of the model, so I want to avoid that. Also, so that I don't have to worry about talking at myself for two hours, I thought I'd bring in somebody whose job it is to educate people about space and rockets who is wearing the most appropriate shirt because as you guys saw from the thumbnail and also my post on the community tab, we are building a model Vostok today. Yay! And there's even a teeny tiny little Gagarin that it comes with, which I am super, super duper excited about. So we're gonna build it and we're gonna chat and we're gonna learn about rockets, we're gonna learn a little bit about sputnik and things and we're just gonna, we're gonna hang out. So this is, yeah, let me know down the comments, guys, I think the comments just appear after. This is archived, but let me know how you guys think about the tag team effort because it's gonna be a lot more fun for me to do all the talking and to have some company. All right. All right, happy to be here. Happy to help. Cheers, thanks for coming while this is good. This is here. I'll hand that back to you. But yeah, you're gonna make this a lot easier. All right, so before we get into this, oh, I have to get up and grab a bottle opener. Before we get into this, would you like to introduce the beer that we were drinking? And I do have to, oh, golly. My iTunes will not let me just have a phone. Is it the little? It's, yeah, it's this little thing and it's supposed to be, once you start a screen recording, if it lets me select the iPhone, aha, it's supposed to mirror your phone. I like to record the full screen. I don't, it's, but it's not showing me my phone. I'm not entirely sure. This worked last when I did it. So, sorry guys, I can't actually see what's happening, but I'm gonna grab a bottle opener and also double check that we were both in the shot. But if you would like to introduce me. That was actually the question I had. Yeah, so we are going to be drinking a ground control from Nkasi Brewery. This is actually a brewery up in my hometown. So I'm always excited to drink this one. And this is called ground control. This is an interesting one because ground control is made with yeast that was launched into space. Then the yeast came back to earth and that is what they used to make the beer. It is a barrel-aged imperial stout. I've had it before and it's delicious. And I'm excited to have more of it today. Oregon hazelnuts, if you're in Oregon watching, you might know that in Oregon we call them filbrits and not hazelnuts, but everywhere else in the world. I don't know a thing. Oh yeah, absolutely. I did not know that. When I was in high school I used to volunteer at the Filbert Festival and I'm really sad that it's not a thing anymore. But yeah, filbrits are hazelnuts. So if anybody ever asks you if you want some filbernut, I already forgot. Filbernut, I was trying to say hazelnut and filbernut. So yeah, this is the other great thing about Lionel is that he's also a beer nerd so he can do this. And before we crack into this bottle, to be totally clear guys, this is not promotion, we both just really like this beer, but I have to thank Adam who sent me this bottle. Thank you, Adam. I've been saving it for something good and a live bill of a Vostok sounds like the best possible time to drink a Grand Control. So I'm gonna crack this open for us. And we are both, of course, you guys know that I have the commemorative Apollo glasses that came out in the early 70s. I think it was like 71 or 72. There's one for Apollo 11 to help their team 14 and we're both drinking Apollo 12 today. So it's appropriate that Pecanrad, the, again, thank you again Adam, Pecanrad is joining us. But also, as you guys know, I posted the other day that Dick Gordon, the Camelogel pilot passed away earlier this week. And as I talked to friends about Dick Gordon would like nothing more than for women to be drinking in his memory. So I'm gonna drink to Dick Gordon today. Cause yeah, he liked women drinking and talking about him. All right. Well, I'm excited. I chose Apollo 12 because Amy asked me to pick a number and didn't tell me why. Yeah. And then it dawned on me why. 12 is a good number though. Apollo 12 is, correct me if I'm wrong on this, Amy, but after Neil Armstrong decided to pick a different landing on Apollo 11, Apollo 12 really needed to prove that they could target their landing site on the moon. Hit point for science. And so they landed right by Surveyor 3, which is right here. And Surveyor 3 was built at JPL where I work. And in our visitor center, there is a piece of Surveyor 3 because the astronauts walked over to Surveyor 3 and broke off a couple of pieces. And we've got a little, a little sample scoop. I forgot, you've got the scoop and the museum, which by the way, that's open to the public, right? Yes, yeah. You've got to go through the tour and stuff like that. But if you, there are a couple of ways you can see it without signing up for a tour. You continue talking about that. I'm gonna slightly adjust the tour. Yeah, absolutely. Let's see, how can they do that? So we do public tours. I should probably say, like we're talking about, you know, that I work for NASA, but this is me on my personal time. Yeah, let's be clear. I'm just sharing all that stuff. That worked, okay. Yeah, so you can sign up for a tour. We've got tours at JPL and you can see the scoop. But also once a month we do the von Karman lectures. And when the von Karman lectures are going on, we open up the von Karman auditorium. It's got a gate facing out of the lab. And so that the general public can come and see the auditorium or the lecture in the auditorium. But it's connected to the museum that has the Surveyor 3 scoop on it. That's a great museum. If you can ever, if you guys are in California and can get on it, I know you guys do regular tours. Oh yeah, I think our public services does, I think three tours a day. They book up pretty far in advance. So if you're thinking like, I'm gonna be in LA next week and go to a tour. It's doable. But hang on, cheers before we do that. Cheers. And cheers to Dick Gordon. I like this beer, huh? This is a very good beer. Okay, but yeah, if you guys are in California in LA and wanna try it, it's definitely worth looking into. It's super neat. I mean, there's something awesome about JPL and the Mars Yard, which is where like, you guys, not all of you guys, cause you don't all actually work on Mars, but those of you working on Mars are like testing with trial rovers. It's just like awesome to see this little spot in the middle of, not the middle of California, but in California where you just have like a replicated Mars. It's awesome. It's totally worth it. And also, yeah, the Surveyor Scoop collected by Pete Conrad. And eventually other Pete Conrad, cat Pete Conrad will probably join. I was in San Diego last night for the San Diego Air and Space Museum event and I got home and my fire alarm was tripping. So I think Pete didn't sleep last night because he was so stressed out. I felt so bad. So he's kind of, he's been napping a lot since I got home, but. He was very affectionate when I walked in. Well, he likes you. No fighting, no scratching. I was very excited about that. He's a good kitten. I do have to make sure he doesn't bite his namesake though because we don't, Pete already has a gap tooth. We don't need cat bite marks on a cat tooth. Alrighty. Okay, let's get to the purpose of hands here. All right, I've got instructions double-sided. Yeah. You, okay. Let's, let's, let's, I feel like we should put you in control because you've probably done this more than I have. You also actually looked at the instructions while I was getting the live stream set up. So I feel like you're probably better at. That's okay. So I will say that I built a lot of models. It's been a while since I built one. Yeah. But fun story, I built, I got my first model when I was seven, I think. Yeah, I was seven years old. It was a car, put it all together. And then I was trying to paint the inside and that's when it dawned on me, paint it first. Right, right, right. And put all the pieces together. Which is great. But not always convenient. Well. But for rockets, it's nice because you don't necessarily have to paint the inside. Yes, this is true. Yeah, there's a couple where I've wanted to retroactively paint the inside, not the inside of it, but like paint the top of the, like the fuel tanks and stuff inside so you can take it apart and see it. So yeah. So as I was telling you all earlier and I'll share with you guys, given that I have not done many of these before, I have two different kinds of paint here. One, I don't know what this brand is. True color paint and the other is testers. I didn't actually know what kind of paint to use so I didn't paint it. So we're gonna build it. If there's anything that looks like it should definitely be painted before we build it, I'll paint it and we can glue it later. But rockets. Well, the fuselage here in the middle, it's gonna be inside all the booths. Yeah, that's gonna be in the together. But it may be covered up. We can kind of piece it together before we go and see what it looks like. See, this is why I brought in the pro guys. All right, so let's get started. And how much, I mean, you're wearing a big ear and shirt and how much do you know about the Vostok? You know, not enough. Right, I know, I'm suddenly feeling like I should have done some more homework but we'll figure out stuff. I'm trying to keep an eye on some comments here and I can maybe do some discreet looking up some Vostok facts, but. All right, let's get started. So this is a one to 100 scale model, I believe. Yes, 100, so if you're not familiar with what that means, that means one of these would actually be 100 times larger on the actual rocket. So, whoops, I think those are supposed to come apart. They are indeed supposed to come apart. Step one, even, they're supposed to come apart. That is true. So get rid of this, what's in this? Oh, that, that's a, yeah, that's just cardboard if we need cardboard to like brace for cutting or anything. Yeah. All right, so we've got these, these are the boosters. There are four of these and we also need what looks like a little crown with a circular thing with notches on it. That's how I describe it. Good, I don't know, you should have heard me doing the Lego thing when I did the Saturn V Lego build. You guys can't see it, but it's right, right next to the phone that I'm streaming off. The number of like the little knobbly bits and people kept commenting, I forget what they're called and I can like feel in my mind, you guys commenting what the knobbly bits are called. I'm gonna separate these things. Yeah, yeah, please do. And I'm gonna file them down ever so slightly. So I've got a very sharp knife here. I've got a knife. Well, it looks sharp. I mean, it's, I know it's sharp. If you want to use this one and shave away. Yeah. Oh, this one's good. Okay. And then if you are also. This was my, I haven't built a model in about five years. So I'm gonna buy the like little kids first modeling kit model knife. It came with, I think it was also, I think I just bought a whole bunch of testers brand. Testers, if you're watching, please reach out. I would love to work with you. But yeah, I just, it seemed to be the most basic like here, here's everything you need. I feel like I did the same thing with a toolkit as a grown up when I bought like, I called it little girl's first toolkit because it was just like the basic things you need to roughly maintain house. What is that? These are different grits of sandpaper. So I would use these so that when I would cut, that's actually not the super fine one. Wow. This is all in the world to me. I feel that, that's the super fine. Oh wow. Okay. And what I would use, and I don't think we need to do it on this one because it looks like this part is going to be white anyway. I think it's supposed to be light gray. Oh, okay. I think. I'm gonna put a picture of a bot stock and have someone else talk to me while I Google. That's right. Well, I'll figure out something to say then. But the sandpaper, when I would cut off the little flanges that put it onto the little support right here. I learned a new word just now, flanges. I would then kind of sand it down smooth or once you glue it together. Right. That makes sense. I've brought some but it's pretty old. You can fill in, when you glue the pieces together, you can fill in that contour putty and kind of sand it down. Oh yeah. I can see where this would come in handy potentially. Different ways to use it. All right. All right, so we've got two pictures. Okay, so there should be eight of these halves. Correct. And so I'm just stacking them up over here. Here, here. And then. I'll get the little knob. Leave it up. See how I'll leave it. Did you want to pull up the pictures of bot stock? Yeah. And I will just get these pieces out. It looks like it's spelled bot stock right now. V-O-S-T-O-K. Did I do it? Yes, I said that I spelled it V-O-S-T-O-K. Because I am very good at one-handed typos. Okay, so when we piece all four of these together, we're not doing them yet, just making sure they fit together. Putting them together is also a good time to cut the little, what did you call it? The knob-leaves? No-leaves? Yeah. It's a good time to cut those off. Right. Because then you can kind of see. Right. Do we have all of them? Is it working? Are we missing one? No, oh. Oh no, here we go. Yeah. Okay, so here's what we're gonna do. So I feel like the V-O-S-T-O-K has had various paint schemes over time. I've got one up. I've got one up this year, right? It's painted white, but I've also seen more recent ones where the bottom is orange. And I definitely wanted, I'm gonna paint this in the style of, I feel like a karaoke machine. I'm gonna paint this one as though it were Big Aaron's launch. So I'm gonna try to figure out what the V-O-S-T-O-K one looked like. And this is the best picture. I wish I could put this into the live stream, but I don't, I can't. So this is what the V-O-S-T-O-K looks like. So it looks like the bottom- That's beautiful. I wish you could all see it. I know, I'm sorry guys. If you Google, you're all on your computers right now and I'm gonna list a few. If you Google V-O-S-T-O-K one, lunch, lunch, lunch. There is a picture, I mean Wikipedia has it. It's like the only one that NASA also has. Oh, there's a Getty Images one. That's probably better quality. Ooh, that is good. So yeah, it looks like the bottom- It could be light gray or white. Right? But it's also, I can't tell, it's not just the bottom bit. It looks like the second- It's like the- It looks like the bottom half of the main fuselage is dark gray. Yeah, and also the bottom half of these external boosters is dark gray as well. And then, ah. I think it's a zigzaggy line, which is terrible. A zigzaggy line? Because that's really hard to paint. We don't have to be super accurate. That's true. Uh-huh. All right. Did you do this one already? I think maybe you did. I did one of them, but yeah, this one. So I'm gonna give you a piece of advice, Amy, if I may. Yes. Cut away from your thumb. Oh, good call. So that when you flip- There's nothing I like better than advice like cut away from your body being on the internet forever. So I'll tell you a story. When I was in seventh grade, I was in my art class and we were doing linoleum printing. Familiar with linoleum printing. It's basically a block of wood with a layer of linoleum. And you carve out the negative of what you want to print and then you layer the paint and you smush it on there. So I had, I don't even remember what my design was. I'm sure it was really, really amazing. It was definitely a rocker. Very, very likely. And I was holding the block and I was carving like this and my teacher kept saying, "'Lyle, cut away from yourself." And so I turned my hand and I would do this. And then I get tired of holding it like that and I would do that. And then I went and I slipped and I went right into my finger and you can still see that little white spot. Oh yeah. That's where I stabbed myself and I hit a little artery and it was squirreling. Oh my God. Yeah. The closest I had is I graded my hand once. Similar shaped instrument. But see this little knobbly bit on my thumb, see knobbly bit, little knobbly bit on my thumb right here. That was where I was grading a block of cheese and it slipped and I graded my thumb off. I hate cheese graders. They scare me. I love the like the zesters where you just like, it's very delicate and very nice. Do you have something done? I think I got that for you. Okay. So can we... Did we get them all? I think that's it. I think that's all. So I mean the way I've always done this is I should probably get the little like the side plastic bit off. No, keep that part on the top. That's actually needed for the rocket. You mean this little thing that looks... No, no, I mean this, see this like, it looks like a gill almost. You can kind of see it back lit in the light. See what I mean? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes when they... Yeah, I assume that's just like a printing error. Yep. Yeah, it's just, I forget how they do it. It's like injection molding or something and then it just sort of spills out over the edge and it's not always clean. All right. These are the round things with little bites out of them that I was talking about. These are gonna go inside. Oh yeah. And these are the things that I said look like crowns. We can... Yeah. Yeah, kind of like that. Pecan red. Pecan pecan red. I might have to go clean up a little bit real quick because I think he just went to the washroom. I did hear something going on back there earlier. I'm gonna go clean that real quick. All right. If you'd like to explain the next little step in our procedure, I'm just gonna duck out and clean the gallery. All right. So there are four boosters and they go on the outside of the main fuselage of the rocket, which is somewhere in here. If you happen to have pulled up a picture of the Vostok on your computer then you know what I'm talking about. But inside we need to put these two little pieces on here and I'm gonna just break them off here. A lot of times when there's something inside you don't have to be quite as precise with getting all the little stuff out but it helps if you want it to be a nice fit. Just sometimes things don't always fit. And this one's got like some little plastic things in here. I'm gonna try to get out here and not cut myself. I remembered when I stabbed myself with a linoleum cutter at the end of the day and so I had to stay after school to get my finger fixed. Oh, here, wait, I'll do it. If you wanna get those, yeah. There's nothing like staying after school to repair your own idiocy. Okay, so it looks like there are two, four, six, eight of these streps and there are eight little notches so they're gonna fit right in there. There's a little groove inside each of these boosters where we can stick these. Boosters are numbered one and one, et cetera. Oh, there's actually one. Oh, they're numbered? Oh, that's handy. Does it really make a difference if they're all the same? I don't know. This one does not have a number on it. Oh, there it is, hard to see. I saw one. I saw a couple of comments. Oh, I didn't realize this was totally right in the shots where I go. But I did see a comment. Someone just asked me if I had a pilot's license. I do not. I would love, love, love to get a pilot's license. Maybe when I have time and like, don't know how much it is, but a whack of a day or so there. Depends on where you go, but yeah, it's a number of thousands of dollars. Yep. I don't know what number that is, but there is a number. I feel like I looked into it years and years ago when I was living in Phoenix and it was something around the order of 85. 85,000? It was obscenely. It was sort of one of those like, I wanna learn to fly. Whoop, no, I don't. It was really, it was quite shocking. That seems excessive. Yeah, right? So just doing a fit test here to see if it fits and it does. I don't know if this will be visible, but that's the bottom business end of one of these boosters. And you can see the little struts with the cap on there. You see? Oh, nice. We've got, I assume engines go in there at some point. Yeah, so at the end there's a piece that like, this gets put on and tucked along the bottom. Awesome. So somehow it all works out in the end. One of these things broke. This is why I'm not good at the plastic models. It's one of one of the little like, crowny bits. Oh, I think since there are eight and we can still use seven of them. Okay. And it's not actually properly structural. It's really not. Let's be clear. This rocket is not exactly launching. This rocket is gonna go on my brand new wall of models once I've built it. It's where the bookshelf is right now. I need to get rid of that mirror. There's a, I don't know if you guys have seen it because I've kept it out of every shot, but I have a mirror that takes up. The world's largest mirror. It is the world's largest mirror. It is seven feet tall by four feet wide and it is, it takes up space that I desperately need for books right now. So I'm kind of building a new like, I'm building a new little home for some of my nerd stuff and there's gonna be a new set, which I'm very excited about. I just need to find like time to do it all but I'm planning to have a wall of models and stuff so that I can be talking about something and then say, grab the model of all stock to discuss Sputnik or Gagarin or Lanup or something. So that should be pretty interesting once I get this all done. But that's the goal. That's why I'm building all these models is because I want to finally have a complete set of space models and stuff. If I told you about, I wouldn't call it a dream or a goal, but maybe just something that I would like to focus my model building efforts toward. So I want all human space flight vehicles in the same scale. So I have that kit. Which kit? There is a, someone's gonna say something about this, but Revell or Revell kit? I say Revell, but I'm sure when you're somewhere else in the world, you say Revell. It's a German brand, I can't remember, but they do have a kit that's every, it's a Mercury, Redstone, Mercury Atlas, Gemini, Titan, Saturn 1B and Saturn V to scale. Do you know what scale? Because- 144? Oh, is it? Because that's the scale I want, because that's my space shuttle and my Saturn V scale. It's also my- No, it can't be, it can't be, it can't be, it can't be. If you don't pay- Because the Saturn V at 144 is about three feet long. Yeah, that's the one that's broken over there. You guys will remember from the back of my old videos, back of my shot, and then it got knocked over by Pete Conrad, Cat Edition, one too many times, so. Should we glue these? We should. Yeah, we should, because otherwise that will happen. Yeah. But I want to see how it all fits together. See, I don't have the patience for that. You know, it's funny. But good on ya, like. I mean, if you want to start gluing, go for it. But look, can you pull the picture up again? Oh. Okay, there's Pete. That doesn't help. Oh, I totally forgot what I was looking at here. Oh, you're looking at the middle of the core stage? Yeah, which one's this? Looks like the top. So. Is there anything, yeah, it's got to be because this would fit within all of these, like the grooves here as the bottom of it. Okay, and then, oh, this is not a great, there must be a, how is this one being, there we go. Basically I just want to see like where you would paint on this. Right, oh, okay, good call. And it looks. No, it's, see this little knobbly thing right here, that one should be where that like hooky thing fits in. Oh wait, is it maybe this way? No, that does not make sense. No, it definitely would flare at the bottom. Oh, but no, but look at this. This is towards the top, it flares to the top. Oh. Unexpected. But. I'm interested too, because the Vostok has like an open staging design right here in the middle, like on the, I think they have the little struts. Which I learned about open staging a couple years ago because I know, I was looking at a picture of a Demony launch and I was like, why is there holes in it? Oh, so it goes like this. Okay. And then I would guess it's probably dark gray up to about here all the way down. Mark that, do you want me to mark her? I mean, maybe it goes from the zig, yeah. Lavender ever since. What I would do is maybe mark it on the inside so that if the paint doesn't cover up the lavender very well, you can. You said it's from the zigzag line? Is it the zig, is it the zigzag on all of this? So this kit has a very subtle, like there's a line structure which is the paint isn't so thick that it won't cover it. So it'll give it some texture, but there's this weird zigzag line. It looks straight on there though. Yeah. I would say pick one of those sets of double lines. You'll do the lower one. Do the lower one and then later if you want to change it, you can. So yeah, I guess we should probably start going at these boosters together. Where'd you go? There we go. All right, so. Do you have a glue nozzle? Fun fact about glue, these metal tins, when you squeeze them. Gets everywhere? Well, yeah, it gets everywhere. I don't know if it's really a fun fact, I don't know why I said that. Put that down. Let's attempt to protect my countertop. Here's a nice countertop. Yeah, when you squeeze it, the pressure increases, yeah, and then that happens. And then that happens. And then it comes out and then you're done and you're like, oh, I'm done. I'm gonna put the cap on and the pressure's still high in there and it still has to ooze out. It glues on. Yeah. Okay, I'm gonna just get a piece of cardboard. Okay. It glues off. So, different weight. I forgot that was in there. Surprise. So when you glue a couple things you can do, you can either glue each of these little, basically there's, they're on each side. I'm sure you've seen this before the little hole, the little button that goes in the hole on the opposite side. You can do just those. If you look at this kit though, you can kind of see there's a gap. If you want, you can put like a little dot of glue inside when you put them together. And do you buy any, I brought some clothes pins to help clamp things together. Nerd. That's, yeah, it works. So, when you- Do you have rubber bands by any chance? I do. So sometimes those are handy. I do, actually. All things together, too. I think you got loads, but some, both from Green onions. I'm sure they've got more in the fridge from other vegetables. And if you want, you can glue this piece first. So do you need to glue, do you need to start with this thing? I would start by gluing this piece because you're gonna have to put it inside the two halves of the- Doesn't this go in first? It goes in first, but what you can do is you glue this all together. I have a plan of action here. All right. Let me see if I can articulate my plan here. I shouldn't do this without adult supervision. Can I see you call me into the phone? I don't know, you have a- You work for NASA, you're an adult. All right, so if you- So what you do- Right. Glue on the tips of the little crowns, and then put this piece on. Hopefully, it looks like the glue didn't actually get on the part that makes contact, so I'm just adding a little bit more here. I think my favorite part about what's happening right now, I don't know how many people are currently watching this, but a lot of people are currently watching glue dry. Hey, at least we're not making them watch paint dry. That's true. That is very true. All right, so we'll let these set for a few minutes, and I'll get this one while that one's drying. I'm not gonna finicky things like this. Go on, start it. I'm gonna glue my hand to myself pretty soon here. So it's interesting that you use the word patience earlier because that is a word that people use to describe me a lot. And when I was, so I like model rockets, but I also like model cars. There's the fourth one. Is it tucked inside one of these? Here we go, there it is. Oh, okay. I would take my model cars and I would add to them. Yeah. So I would build the engine, and then I would take little pieces of thread, and I would add in spark plug wires or battery cables and all sorts of really ridiculous things that weren't necessary, but made me very happy. Hey, if it works for you, do it. I don't know. So you got one of them done already? I got one done, it's right there. Okay. All right, then what I will do is I'm gonna take one of these, even if they're not dry and they're just tacky enough to not fall apart when we lift them up, that's good enough, I think. Little glue here. The little dots are good for lining up, but if there are some flat surfaces that you can put a little glue on that will contact on each side, that's also good. Not too much though. You can always sand it off or scrape it off if it comes out too much. The extra glue? Yeah. Like if I put the pieces together and it squeezes glue out. Oh, right, right, right. Oh, wait, but this thing needs to go inside this. Yeah, so I'll put a little glue. Do you? Okay. So I'll put a little glue right in. I'll set the instructions in here. Is it, does it fit right in? Yeah, so what you'll need, see on one side, if you look on one side, there's a really small section where it can fit in. You wanna make sure that's where it kinda lines up. So take one. Oh, this is bad, okay. And then pop it right. Oh. Like that. Oh, this feels like I'm gonna break it. And then. It looks like it's supposed to line up a certain, ah, did I figure it out? I don't think I figure it out. Oh, wait, okay, I get it. I get it. I'm an eight-getter. All right, you got it? I think, I don't know, look at the instructions real quick. Yeah, of course. Sorry. It's this one right here. Step one. Ha, ha, ha. This has been what, like 20 minutes or a half an hour? Oh my God, it's been like 40 minutes and we're still on step one. Oh boy. All right, so take a little rubber band here. Keep it nice and tight. So, clamped on the small end with my clothes hanger pins. Oh, people are asking you for stories about working at NASA. Well, I don't build models for NASA. My favorite story about working at NASA was probably shortly after Curiosity landed. All right, I gotta make sure I'm looking at number one here, number one. So wait, I glued the halves together first, right? So you got that in and did you put a little glue on this? No, but I will. And then I, and then, okay. Yep, you got it, that's it. So shortly after Curiosity landed and I think for about three months the rover operations team, the science team, they all worked on Mars time. So, day on Mars is 24 hours, 39 minutes, 40 seconds. We round up to 40 minutes. And so every day the teams come in 40 minutes later. So come in at eight o'clock one day, eight, 40 the next day, nine, 20, 10 o'clock. Which sounds great if you like sleeping in until you realize that after. Eventually you're gonna be able to. Eventually you're coming in at like 10 o'clock at night and you're working all through the night and then mowing your lawn at like 10 and your neighbors hate you. Is this still number one? Number two, there we go. Oh, I didn't even notice. Man, I think. Which one's number one? Okay, but you've got. I've got two and two. We're good. I think I just did four and four. Anyway, let's continue. Mars time. So Mars time. So anyway, that goes on for three months about. I had a meeting during that three months with somebody. I don't even remember why. What were we gonna talk about? But maybe two hours before the meeting he sends me an email and he says, hey, sorry, I have to cancel. I thought you would schedule this on Mars time, not Earth time. Oh my God. There's nowhere else in the world that that's like a real email and a real reason to miss a meeting. Wait, where's your, I'm gonna clip your other end here so that your top end is nice and clampy too. Oh, okay. Oh, I didn't glue it. Wait, what did you glue? Wait, I did it wrong. I did it wrong. Shoot, I'm so bad at this. Did it wrong? I forgot to glue the top half of it, so I just, no. Okay, so maybe don't pull the bottom all the way apart. No, we're gonna ever set a slight weight. Squeeze a little in there. This is why I, this is why I can't do these things a little bit. Oh my God. Okay. We're good, we're good. Okay. We're good. All right, and this is just, this is the weirdest piece because there's nothing that locks these two pieces together. So this is definitely, I think that'd be a rubber bandy one. Okay. I'm gonna have some extra plastic on it too. So yeah, that's probably my favorite story about working at NASA. I don't know. What were you doing when Curiosity landed? I was here in Pasadena. Were you on lab? No, I was not. I was actually, so I forget how many thousands of guests were coming. I was there. I was one of them. You were on lab? Yeah. Yeah, that was the first time I ever came to LA. Yeah, I came out to cover it for a universe today and we just did a live stream. We were in the, it was actually really funny because you know the media center where everybody is and then there was an extra trailer of runoff and it was where journalism goes to die. It was the saddest, coldest trailer that you could put. We were so far away from all the action and we didn't get to go anywhere. Media didn't get to do anything that day. But yeah, there were so many people who were on the radio, including like Alex Trebek and Will I Am? I have not heard about those. I know that. They were both there that day. Who else was there? Wait, were you there in the daytime or nighttime? I was there from like 8 a.m. till 4 a.m. I was there the entire day. So there were a couple of different venues. So there was JPL, friends and family were Caltech maybe or PCC, I forget. There was Overflow at Caltech and at PCC. That makes sense. Pasadena City College here. And I was at PCC and... All right, the glue in myself to myself has a 100% commenced over here. That horn, it sounds like it's dying inside. Yeah, so I was there just kind of watching. But you weren't working at all. Nope, nope, nope. Sorry, we should say you work in education and as a, yeah. So for me, the work came, not a huge fan of the fuselage here. Yeah, but for me, the work came the next day. So we had some scheduled connections to schools through video conferencing. And the hope was, and I'm glad it all worked out, that Curiosity would land safely because if it didn't, we were still connecting to the schools and then we'd have to explain what happened and so. Here's what a crash sounds like on Mars. Fantastic day. Yeah, I'm very happy to not have to do that. Anyway, I, before I went down to PCC, I actually stopped at a frozen yogurt place. So I knew it was gonna be a good day because as I was standing in line, it was just one of those places where they add the mix-ins and then at the very end, they ask you to sample it. And if you don't like it, they make you a new one. Well, they scoop it out of there so you're not licking the frozen yogurt and it's a clean frozen yogurt. And if you don't like it, they will then turn to everybody in line and say, hey, does anybody want to have a blah, blah, blah? And any time I'm in line, any time I hear, hey, does anybody want to, I shoot my hand up and say, I do before I hear what it is. And then I get free frozen yogurt, which is great. Sweet. Yeah. Free frozen yogurt and a non-Field Mars mission all at once. Awesome sauce. Somebody was asking to see the box. This is the box. I feel like I should have told you guys, this is a MPC model kit. I don't know. This is the first one I've ever used this brand and I just found it on Amazon and I honestly just thought, I'd like that. I'd like that in my collection and I feel like it'd be a fine one to build. So here, I'll put this, I don't know, there's no good place to put it right here. But anyways. What is it? Well, I don't know, I'm trying to look at the shot. It's not, this is sort of, I have to move like the bad way. Go ahead. Try this. Okay. That's way too far over. Yeah, we'll show it to you guys periodically. We'll try to time-planse it over. Figure it out. I'm gonna put all these things in there. I don't know if that's useful or not. I don't know, I'm not gonna say it. Um. Okay, I'm gonna move pecan rod because I don't want him to get damaged. Okay. But, okay. I probably don't need all of these exactly when I use. That's true. All right, so all four of our boosters are glued and are waiting. This one? Yes. All done. Yeah, I didn't have a small elastic. I'm afraid the asparagus elastic is gonna wreck it. And I saw some people asking, this is my friend Lyle who works for NASA, who is an happen model builder for those who missed the intro. And I've already gotten glue all over my hands and I don't know what I'm doing. So I thought it was best to bring in a pro. Glue free. Best to bring in a pro and also someone who can talk about rockets, who can talk about NASA and can actually like, Lyle's one of the friends that comes over for like, I'm good, I'm good, but I feel like a surgeon. I've got, I have my JPL friends come over for movies sometimes. So this is the closest thing I can do to as opposed to like having a live stream of a movie night, which actually could be really fun, but really problematic rights-wise. We talked about, did you, I can't remember the last movie we watched. Marooned. Marooned. Marooned, were you here? I can't remember if you were here. That sounds familiar, that's the old one. With James Kahn? And they're like, decide whether or not they're gonna save the crew. When there's like a dinosaur launch almost in the middle, like through the eye of a hurricane. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay, you're there. We talked about doing a, everyone was, when Fred was here. I think Fred was there. Okay, yeah, Fred was there, but we talked about doing a, a Martian night, considering like all of you guys work on Mars. My favorite thing, so our friend Fred, Fred does maps on Mars. He takes the data from Curiosity and built maps and he's very good at it, because that's what he does. And I remember when, before the movie, the Martian came in, this was like right around the time when everyone was reading it. We went out to, like for drinks on Friday night, just all the NASA people. And Fred and our friend Doug, I think it was Doug, makes sense that it would be Doug. They both just sat there and like pulled out their phones, started going through maps of Mars, like criticizing Watney's route to, to Pathfinder from where he landed. And it was just like, like way too deeply nerdy about this. It was really, really funny. But yeah, those are the kinds of people that I, that my friends are. So I thought I'd introduce you guys to some of them. All right, so this is the, the Fuse Lodge in the center here. And it's the one that keeps flipping because it doesn't have the little buttons for a little hole. So just kind of waiting. I think, I think it's good if we just let it stand right there for a little bit. And it's because this would be a great time for Pete to come up and like want to like everything. I don't know what it is with cats, but they like, it's like, they don't have like opposable thumbs and fingers. They just like put everything in a face hole. All right. All right. So I unclamped and unbanded a booster. So I think they're probably good to. They're probably okay. Yeah. All right. I mean, I wouldn't do too much with them right now, but I think they're okay. And it says we need chrome things. Chrome things. Michael just asked if I would consider interviewing surviving astronauts. Yes. They are hard. Sorry, I'm looking here with the cameras here. I would love to. It's tough to figure out who's willing to talk to you. I glued this one wonky, but I think it'll be fine. It's just like slightly off center. That's the one that I glued the bottom. Nobody's going to see it. Yeah. It's really, you guys don't mind when I demonstrate how Vostok works. So yes, I would love to interview surviving astronauts and stuff. I have a few people that I'm hunting down for a few things depending on whether or not they'll be willing to talk to me. It's something I'd love to do more of. And events are always great for that. So yes, it's something that I've definitely thought about and I'd love to get some good equipment and be able to actually do it properly. So yeah, yeah, something I'd love to do. Have I ever, and so much asked if I've ever met an astronaut. I have met many astronauts. I actually met two astronauts last night. One's name escapes me, but the other was John Harrington, who was the first Native American in space. And he was awesome. He was just like, he like dropped out of school because his grades are really bad in college. And then realized that he had an aptitude for engineering, went back to school, got his BSC and his masters, joined NASA, went to space, went back and got a PhD in education and now does like public education, public outreach and education, specifically to Native American schools to get kids interested in science technology. He is so cool. And I, if you guys go to my Twitter, I do have a picture of him from meeting him last night. So eventually I will do more on him. But sadly, I went down to an event at the San Diego Air and Space Museum who's being inducted into the Hall of Fame and traffic was so brilliantly bad that I missed my chance to interview him, but there was a cocktail party and a dinner. So I got to chat with him a bit, but unfortunately very informally. So I didn't get to, didn't get like a story, story out of it, but that'll be something. There will be something. All right. So see how thick that plastic is? Yeah. This piece has to be removed. Are you serious? Yeah. Why did they do that? Look, we don't even need Pete. Okay. Yeah, true. I don't know, but this is where I'm gonna cut away from myself. Why would they do that? Yeah. So there's a really big plastic tab on there. I don't even know why. That's like, you need pliers? What can I do? Will you hack away that try not to kill yourself? Do you want to? Oh, chrome pieces. Are there, do you see anything? So we've got these four chrome pieces. You could probably maybe trim the little bits there. Oh yeah. And then figure out how they go together. That's great. They go, yeah, we'll see how that works. So how many of you guys out there actually do these models for fun? Because I used to do it to relax, but now that I'm doing it again, this isn't relaxing. It's weirdly stressful. I think it's because you're on camera. I guess it's true that I've never done this publicly. This is weird that they have this on here. I don't have a mat, like a, that's fine. I'll just, I'm going to score it and keep scoring it. And eventually I'll cut all the way through. Oh my God. Or maybe it'll, no. There we go. Nope, shoot. I'm not entirely sure why they would make chrome parts cause you're going to need to paint it eventually, right? Not the chrome. Yeah. So often you'll see chrome and clear pieces. You can get like silvery chrome paint, but never it looks quite as nice as the chrome for just sheer shininess. I don't see them much on rocket models. I see them on old car models for bumpers and stuff like that. I'm not sure I'm going to pull up this, I don't know, every picture of Vostok when I'm launching just has fire at the bottom. So I'm not, I can't totally tell like how, why this is crony. And I want to make sure that it's like the old version of it, right? So I have a rocket question for you. Yes. What's your favorite rocket? It's like a toss up between the Saturn V and the Titan only because we all know that I love the Gemini program. It's got to be Saturn V. I mean, is there any like self-respecting space nerd that doesn't have soft spot for the one that took us to the moon? Like it's just so big. That sounds terrible. It's just like, it's amazing. You've seen it. You're the one. I think I've told this story before. 15th anniversary, right? First launch? It was the yesterday. Yeah. And sadly I was stuck in traffic and couldn't do anything about it. But I do actually have a really great video of, I should re-post that. I should actually re-post that. I'll put that on the community page. But I'll also put it up on Facebook and Twitter. I did a video a few years ago actually, Apollo 4 took a series of images of the Earth at the apex of its flight. It's highest point from the apex, but the like the highest point in its orbit, the apogee, that's the word thank you. Words escape me sometimes. But it's beautiful. And I stitched them all together so you see like the Earth sliding into the frame and then it's leaving again. It's unbelievable. And it's just like, if any of you guys saw the footage and the images from the Orion EFT-1 flight a couple years ago, it was a couple years ago now, right? December of at least two or three years ago, yeah. It looked a lot like that. I don't, it was very, very reminiscent of that, of the imagery from that flight actually. But it's beautiful. I think EFT went 4,000 miles up. I can't remember. I can't remember how far. I think Apollo 4 went like 9,600 miles up. Oh man, and that video I did of Apollo 4 was like, I think I did it at my parents' house. It's really old. So the intro is very awkward. But yeah, I'll post that. But if you guys are on my page right now and you use a little search bar and look for Apollo 4, you'll find it. It's just stunning images that I tried to piece together with music. Should do a social video out of that, actually. So Saturn V is also my favorite, but it's my favorite because it was the, my history is correct. It was the first rocket built and designed to, for non-war purposes. Well, Saturn I. Yeah. Saturn I, Saturn V. The Saturn, it's the Saturn family was the first. True. That's actually something I've never, sorry, I'm focusing on not breaking. Are you cutting away from yourself? I'm cutting straight down and away. There we go. Okay, got it. That's true. Yes, the Saturn family is the first one of that era built purely for space. Like not even for, not even for satellites. Oh, it's gonna be for space, but also some other stuff. Well, all the other ones were like, we're gonna put bombs on this. And then some guy, usually Werner von Braun, was like, we could put a human on it instead of the bomb. And then someone's like, fine. Very grudgingly. Oh my gosh. Okay, good. Very grudgingly. Why was that even there in the first place? I'm very confused with it. But yeah, the Titan II, I've done a video about this as well. The Titan II was a later version of the Titan I. And of course it has no fins in its design way. It is because it was designed to launch vertically out of a missile silo as opposed to off a launch pad. So it's pretty interesting. Speaking of, excuse me, if you guys can get to the Titan Missile Museum outside Tucson in Arizona, if you are local to there or ever find yourself going through there, it's worth it. It's like a, I wanna say it's like an hour and a half tour, but it's pretty neat to see Titan with a warhead on it. And it's in the silo. You can go through the control room and see where the two buttons are that the guys had to, the keys they had to turn in tandem to launch it. And you're like, and this is what they slightly modified to put the Gemini on. Like it's wild when you really think about it. Yeah. Yeah, I was gonna say, sorry, my favorite story about your story about the Saturn V. So I'll talk for you since you're cutting. So Lyle used to work at Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. And this was back in the day, like before Google Maps and GPS and stuff existed. So, right, you were, this is one of my favorite things for someone. I actually have retold this story to impress upon people how big the Saturn V is. Cause I believe the directions you were given were to take whatever freeway it was and then turn off when you see the Saturn V. Yeah, yeah. Which is like, I can't imagine like, I don't really enjoy driving down freeways for hours, not knowing exactly when my turnoff is coming. I can't imagine being like, I'll just turn off when I see a giant rocket. Like that sounds like a recipe for me getting lost in the forest at midnight. Somehow the forest has a freeway in it. But anyway, yeah, that you can actually see it. And you're like, oh yeah, I get that now. That's insane to me that this rocket is so big. If you guys have never seen one and can get to either Kennedy or Huntsville has one or Johnson Space Center in Houston has one, see it. That rocket is awesome sauce. It's just amazing. I haven't seen the one at Johnson yet. I've seen the other two. Yeah, I haven't seen in Alabama. I've never been to Alabama, I don't think. Yeah, the one in Alabama is great because they've got the actual rocket inside in there. Cause that's, it's the only place I think that has one that's upright. You can also walk. Yeah, they've got a full scale upright version. And so that's what they were, that's what they were giving me directions to do. I think I was in Tennessee and I'm like, yeah, go down this freeway, take this freeway and just follow the Southern Five. Yeah. I was like, what are you talking about? And she just said, you'll see. Yep. And I did. I mean, I was probably six, seven miles away when I saw it. And I just. That's insane. Yeah. That's massive. And I went back there a couple of years ago and it was just the highlight of my trip to see it again all those miles away. Yeah. One of these days I will get there and I will do videos for you guys. We were going to try to go. I know. I know. We had like, I don't know, 10 or 12 people trying to go. Oh, was it that many? Oh no, we had, there was like a group. It was like the whole, all of you guys wanted to go to adult space camp. Adult space camp is a thing. And we were all trying to go. And you know, you, you work for NASA and everyone else works for NASA. And there's me, the freelancer. And no one could get like a solid week off because what we all wanted to do was all the people who, you know, work on Mars and work on all these missions to like go to space camp together. No one could find the same week off and we had to abandon it. Yeah, that was sad. I still want to do that. Well, it's still there. I know, I know. One of these days, I want to still get there. Oh my God. All right. So we're most of the way done with step one. No, we're on step like... No, step one. Step two. It's right here. Oh my God. Oh, sub-assemblies. Oh, okay. Okay. I feel way less bad. I feel way less bad. We're almost done with step one. The first part of step one has four parts and step one itself has 13 steps, so. Okay, okay. Sorry, I didn't realize so. Okay, step one is the base of the rocket. Step two is the payload and step three is the rocket assembly and step four. Oh yeah, okay. So it's always Sputnik and Vostok. Okay, okay, we're good. Oh, we can do both? Yeah. So I think I want to figure out, we'll have to figure it out before we put them together because I want to keep it such that the payload is interchangeable. That's what I want to do. So yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited to have a little, there's a tiny, teeny tiny, let's see if I can find this. All right, so while this is drying. Okay. I still can't figure out what to do with those little chrome pieces. So something happens, oh wait, here we go. Oh, there's little, these things. See these little like knobbly bits that have the hole in them? That's how they go together. So they have to somehow. Okay, oh, this is something that I forgot because I haven't worked with chrome pieces in a long time. Yeah. The chrome does not adhere to glue very well. So if you take the little end and just kind of like. Yeah. But you got to be careful. You just want to get the chrome off and not like accidentally cut the whole piece off. Great. No good. I've done that. And it doesn't have to be perfect. You've just got to get a little bit of exposed plastic. Huh, I've never thought of this. I mean, it will eventually work but you need more glue and more time and it's just a little faster that way. Well, this is where, like I said, I once did a model and used the wrong paint and it was plastic and it peeled right off. It was an SR-71 model and it just like, it's gone. I was like, I don't understand. It's going so fast that it just peeled right off. Yep. I heard that happens a lot. Yep. You have the elastic bands, right? You can just elastic it together and see how it fits. Oh yeah. The first space camp alumni to go into space. Since the first space camp alumni to go into space, do you know? You would know, I don't know what you're doing. I mean, I actually don't. There have been several space camp alum. And I don't, I don't know who it was. Come on, NASA education. I know, right? Yeah, I actually don't know. I feel like it was a couple of years ago. Yeah, I actually don't know. Should that one go? All right. All right, so what is happening here? This little thing goes like this. It's actually kind of a tricky thing, I think. If this is looking very curvil. So I think. Having like metal struts for safety. So I think what happens is, so this chrome piece with the little holes. Yeah. Attaches. Do you want an elastic it? Here. Like this. So it goes like that. I don't know if you can see that there. Okay. I'm gonna probably mess it up. Oh yeah. Wait, really? And then, so it happens, it does on both sides. And then the straight pieces go through those little holes. Oh my God, that's so unnecessary. So I think what we should do is. Paint it. Oh, you want to paint this part? I didn't think about painting it first. I definitely want to paint it. So this might be something that, here, let some. So we paint, well, what you do, paint this. And then I'll start working on that section or this section, because those can be done independently. Okay. All we trouble is, I don't know how long it will take to dry. Yeah, and so I was thinking, we might actually just, instead of gluing it together right now, just band it together, and then I can paint it and glue it later. Just so we can see what it looks like. But if we can build the payload separately. Oh yeah, definitely. And they're interchangeable, then we can just put the rocket aside and I can finish that. So you guys literally have to sit and watch me dry. It's super fine. But also, I'm still not sure that I have the right colors. Like I have, this is a silver that I need for the Titan. I don't have the right colors. I have all gray. I'm curious about the salmon color. I have a Bell X one. Oh. Yeah, no, it's orange. It is, well, it says orange. It's supposed to be orange. That's the most salmon you've ever seen. Oh, good golly. All right. Okay, so we should just kind of roughly. You're right. This is really salmon. What rocket would ever, what model would ever be salmon color? Unless you're building like model salmon. You're weird, seven, five. Right, the Locke's rocket. The Locke's rocket. I don't know if you guys have seen it's, I unpinned it, but every time someone talks about Locke's liquid oxygen, I think of smoked salmon because smoked salmon is sometimes called Locke's. I just get the image of like a rocket squirting out smoked salmon. It's like a disgusting thing in the world, but it's probably raised. Here, I'll let you figure that out. And I am going to, it looks like Pepto Bismol. Streets and boosters. It's either Kerbal or Russian, right? Here's some Streets. We're gonna be building Streets with the payload. Oh yeah, it is. It's Streets and Duh. It's Kerbal. It's Kerbal all over the place. Just checking it out on... Oh, someone's asking about the Martian Slave Colonies. Are these the Martian Slave Colonies of children? Because... Pretty sure there's no evidence of that. Insanity. Insanity is what I think of it. Paint in at least prime, proper for assembly. Sorry, I'm looking through some of your comments. That makes sense. I know as we discussed earlier, if you guys who are discussing my inability to paint before modeling, I wasn't sure what kind of paint to use, so I figured I would just build it and that's why we're not gonna assemble the entire thing right now. You probably leave those bits off the side. I think I have a little baggie or something and just keep them so they don't get totally, totally lost. So these four little pieces here, you can't tell they're four because they're all smushed together. They're supposed to sort of weave in and out of each other to connect all four of the boosters. I don't think we can really do that if we're not gluing it because I think you've got to glue two boosters on and let it set for a bit and then we'll just sand the pieces. So we'll just kind of rough-fit it here. I've basically, if we could, if you can put it together enough that it sort of looks like what it's supposed to look like. Here. It's like building a real Russian rocket. Oh my God. But no, the most impressive thing about the Vofdok rocket, the R, so properly the R7 missile, right? It's still, like it's been modified and slightly changed, but it's- They're still being- It's still being here, I'm gonna watch that. It's still being flown relatively, I mean, I don't know how changed, but it's still flying today, which is actually really impressive. I mean, NASA can't say that it's still rocking technology that was good enough in the 60s and it's still good enough now. Like it was so good in the 60s and now we have nothing. There we go. We've got it. So it sort of looks like it. It's coming together. You guys can kind of see it. Yes, this is Tester's paint, you guys asking. Tester's, oh, I know, we can work together. Yes, I don't have the right colors, which is why I didn't paint it first, but I will paint it before I actually put the booster together, because I want to paint it as per the, what am I talking about? The Vofdok one launched, not a modern one. And I want to keep it old school, because that's kind of the vintage thing that I do. Wash it before you paint it, that's, yeah. You know, I've heard that. I've never washed a single model that I've ever done. I've never thought about it. It's supposed to get like some of the oils and other things that were perhaps on the plastic through processing and stuff like that. So if you've got too much and you paint on it, it'll peel or do whatever. I've never done that. I've never thought about it. But, so I've got some Tester spray paint. So all the bottle stuff here, I often use spray paint for big pieces and just I'll get some painters tape to mask off the areas I don't want painted. Yeah, I worry about doing that. Oh, no, no, no. I'm gonna be killing myself in my can. Yeah, I don't want you and Pete to die, so. Thank you. So I don't recommend that. And if you, and that's the thing, anytime I ever did it, I would always do it outside. But it's nice because it puts on like a nice even paint. Usually you do a couple light coats and before you know it, you're done painting. And I saw, I did see a comment that, what was it gonna say? I've lost my train of thought. Something about paint. I'm gonna put Pete back here. Oh, that the Atlas is still flying, good call. I forgot that the Atlas is still flying in various incarnations. I wonder, and I don't know the answer to this, I wonder how much the Soyuz, the R7 has changed since it started flying to now versus the Atlas and the various different Atlases that are flying now. There's a rocket launching out of Vandenberg, I think this month or next month and it's going to be the last launch of that rocket. Is it the Delta II? I don't know, what's, isn't Insight's launching from here? Yeah, but not till March. Oh, May now. That keeps getting pushed on, back and back and back. That'll be a fun one because that'll be the first Mars launch from the West Coast. Woo! Okay. Payload. All right. I don't know where Kat Pete is. He's not there, he's snuggling on the chair. Oh, he's snuggling on the chair, all right. I'll try to get Pete up here eventually, but okay, let's go on to payloads. So the, what I was excited about this model when I got it, it has a Sputnik and a Vostok payload so you can do both your DeGeron and beeping ball of stuff. So I'm going to attempt to keep it such that I can entertain the payload so that I can talk about both of them. Oh, there's Urie. Yeah, there's a tiny little- Wait, Urie goes in- No, this is Sputnik. Oh, this is the second one. Yeah, this is Sputnik and then, hmm. I don't know, I'm actually really confused now. Maybe not. One, two, three, four. Why was it, why is it not? Five, six, seven, maybe you have three options? You have three, you've got Sputnik, you've got Urie and you've got, oh wait. No, maybe it doesn't. Maybe I completely misread this. It looks like there's multiple options here. I didn't say that it has a Sputnik. With Vostok, SA, and Sputnik. Sputnik. I don't know. Well, look, here's the picture. Yeah, Sputnik satellite and Vostok, I wanted to say capsule. So I think when you get this part done, it goes somewhere. All right, let's figure this out first. Oh, you know what, here's what happens. I think this is. It's different. I don't know. Let's start putting things together. But I don't know, I'll sort of try to show you guys. It's teeny tiny Urie could carry. It's so small. This is why I love when they have pilots in these things. Like he's this big. So you get a sense of like how big they are compared to the rocket, which is my favorite thing with model satin vides. All right. Do you have the clear pieces? I have the clear pieces. You have the clear pieces. Here's the chrome pieces. Okay, thank you. So I'll take off this. So do you want me to take? What am I doing? I think this piece here. So let's do these pieces here. I don't know what one and two are, but you can find them on your chrome pieces there. It looks like a hemisphere and another hemisphere. It, oh yeah, okay. Oh yeah, okay. All right. Okay, here's where I attempt not to cut myself. Please don't. If you do, where's your first aid kit? I don't have one. Well. Pete. I know what you're getting for Christmas. Pete, come save me. Basically, basically every attempt at self-preservation I have and like grown-up-ness is just Pete, come face it. He's a very bad helper, but he's very cute. Okay. All right. Did you find your two hemispheres? I found my two little spheres. Do I glue them? Yes. Oh, so the two little spheres, that's Sputnik. Yeah, that makes sense. But where's the little, I think this is. It doesn't have antennae. So you, when you put the two hemispheres together, they go in this cap and then they go on top of the little chrome thingy and then this goes on the bottom, that's what I'm assuming. I peeled off some of the chrome on that one, darn it. All right, should I glue Sputnik? It's so tiny. Yeah, like, you know, I do have, we discussed this, you don't have toothpicks? Uh, no. But I've got the little nozzly bit. If you can go like super tiny bit, because otherwise, I mean, it'll be fine. It's gonna say the less glue on that little teeny tiny piece. Sputnik is so small. It's ridiculous. I'll show you guys in half a second here. That's where I got really focused on. I'm gonna reach behind you. Oh, do you need? Can you get a little? Here you go. Thank you. I'm glad that this is a good beer and not just like some, I don't know, something where they just like, we're gonna want some used into space and then make terrible beer. Right? It is a really, it's a legitimately good beer. Yeah, I tried to get a bottle whenever I go back up to home. I mean, I can get it around here, but it's nice to get it from up there for some reason. And then Kasi is also the only brewery I've ever gotten a free tasting in the airport. They were just in the Eugene Airport by the ticketing gates. And after you checked in, but before you went through security. Yep. Great. Okay. I'm gonna leave step one. Here's Sputnik. It's tiny. Okay. Okay. Time's Sputnik. All right, so do. All right, so this is the whole Sputnik assembly. Yeah. I'm gonna put you in charge of it. I think Sputnik goes inside of this thing here. Yeah, it does. And I'm gonna start. I'm gonna get little Yuri. Oh, teeny tiny Yuri. Tiny tiny Yuri. So I don't know if I should have painted teeny tiny Yuri, but I guess he won't show up. That's up to you. We could. I mean, he's really little. I know, he's super small. He's the finest paint brush I have. Cause again, I bought, I bought, first time, my first time I took it. Oh, I do. That's what that, that's what that was. I was wondering, I was like, why do I have these shiny pieces of stuff? These are the brushes that I have. They are not good ones. Really difficult to paint Yuri with that. I might have some little ones you can borrow. So. Well, let's start taking them apart. So we're just gonna paint him brown just so that when you look into the spacecraft, if you can see him, that there's some color on him. So it looks like it's clear. Cause he's gotta be in this part, right? Yeah, I think you'll be able to see him. Although I don't know what these, that looks clear to me, but I do not actually see it. It may have come off the tree and. Okay. So I glued Sputnik together. Oh, glued all together? Yeah. Oh wait, I did this backwards, hang on. Yeah, it has to be glued. It doesn't click, unfortunately. Oh yeah, yeah. That's the only shame is that then I can't take it apart and show you Sputnik, but it's still pretty neat cause you can see through it. Cool. All right, I'm gonna glue Sputnik. All right, I'm cutting a little Yuri off of this. It's so fragile. It's a safety pin, this glued itself together. It's your safety pin. A safety pin, no, I do not. All right, well actually this is okay. Uh-oh. He's right there. All right, so Yuri's off, Yuri needs a chair to sit in. Oh, you're barely gonna be able to see Yuri if at all, if it's in the top. Cause he gets enclosed in this weird little cylinder and there's plenty of opening at the top. Okay. So you could still paint his helmet. You could put like one little red line on it and make it look like it's the- All I have is salmon. This is the other thing with these really finicky little model kits. I'm like, can you just give me a tiny little decal that says CCCP on it so that I don't have to go buy a thing of red paint just to make a tiny little dot to stand in lieu of being able to see the actual writing on his helmet. So here's, you know, there's Yuri in his seat. So tiny. Oh my God, so tiny. And this is the view you'll get of him from above. Huh. I mean, that's kind of what it'll look like. I'll paint it. We might have to not totally put them together so I can paint it. All right. This is gonna be a multi-stage build but I won't subject you guys to all the build. Let's see. I'm looking through some of your history of the Vostok. Just looking through, just looking through. Shortest of single hair brush. Oh, single hair brush, that sounds amazing. So I didn't wanna mention this but sometimes what I used to do is I would get one of these brushes and I would trim it and then I would cut all the extra hair off so I only had like one or two. That's insane. But yeah, yeah, okay. That was also when I used to put jumper cable, heard about jumper cables. Spark plug wires and other things into my model cars. That's a whole level of dedication. How old are you when you did that? Hmm, that is a great question. Probably middle school and high school. Like 28? No, I haven't done any model cars as an adult actually. The last model car I did was a 1964 Chevy Impala or a Dodge Viper. Not sure which one. All right, nice. I customized both of them by putting, I used to cannibalize model kits to take different pieces from other kits and put the tires up that I wanted on a certain car onto that model kit. I don't really want it. Okay. Okay. Urie, is this the other half of it? That's got to be it. There's nothing else that's spherical like that. Oh yeah, that looks right. I made spun it. So spun it gives the tiny little dot up there. Ooh, the glue seeped all around. Darn it. It's not super clear and pretty anymore. Sorry. Anyways, you'll be able to see it. So once I have this model actually done, we can talk about spun it. Do you want me to glue Urie to his seat? I think so. Okay. That'll make the rest of the test fit a little easier. I think so because, oh look, he's even gotten a little cross on his back Oh my God. The detail on this thing is pretty impressive. Kind of like, yeah, let's do it. I'll paint him. I'll just like, you just need some kind of color so that it doesn't look like white plastic when you look in. He's never going to look as good as Pete Conrad. Not at this size. Okay, you've got that stuff. Have a seat, Urie. This is, yeah, this is tiny. You're hardly going to see anything of him. We have tiny, all this stuff is. I love when these model kits are made for kids like 12 and up and I'm like, well, 10, 12 year old has the patience for this. So this is what you'll see, Urie. Okay, enough to paint. Yeah. All right. So we have to, yeah, we have to do another awkward like put it together without actually gluing it so that I can come back and finish gluing it later. Do you want me to glue him into this section and you paint from here or do you want to have him out like this? I don't like that. Okay. All right. I'm just going to sort of click this assembly together and put it all together, put a little rubber band over it and call it, I don't know if they're pulling our rocket together. I don't see very many more. I think I have some onions in the fridge. Yeah, and I just accidentally shot it off with my hand so no idea where Pete's looking at me like it might have hit him. You might have just seen it when I was on and I'm like, I want that. I want to play with that. Okay. Okay. I had two more bunches of green onions. I put them in salads. You don't have to justify why you have- It's not that weird. It's not that weird. I like green onions. Okay. Okay. So there's still some other stuff going on here. That looks like a Christmas tree. All right, I got that. That's here. Does this bar come off, do you think? It's hard to say because it looks- Oh, it does say remove. Oh, okay. Okay. And I don't know what that piece is. I can't figure it out. Is that a hat? Right? Is it? You're right. Yeah. Okay. Not an accurate drawing, but it's pretty sure it's a hat. Okay, I'll take this off and get that ready. I don't know what any of these pieces are. You mean in terms of their role in the rocket? Yeah. I have no idea. This- Because it acts like- This looks like it would be an instrument ring or something, it's like a parachute, but I don't know where- So, here's Yuri's capsule and then this sits on here. Maybe that's what separates the service module of sorts. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, because if you take that bar out, it'll fit and it'll be around. That makes sense. Okay. Okay, that actually doesn't make sense. And then, and then there's one, and then there's- Do you want to do this thing? This piece. Oh yeah. Okay. Interesting. I'm curious what this thing does. Wow. I- Or did. Don't know. Okay, wait, let me- One diagram. See if we can figure that out, because I don't know. This is one of the reasons I actually liked building models when I first started doing it. It's like, you get to learn about, oh, it is a thing. What is that thing? What? This- What did you call it? Christmas tree thing. Yeah. That light supports. Life supports. Spherical oxygen and hydrogen tanks provide a breathable air for the garen. Huh. Interesting. So, this is what we're talking about. Yeah. A little ring of spherical oxygen and hydrogen tanks. It looks odd, but yeah, because of course the Soviets had a mixed gas environment. They never used pure oxygen. So there's an interesting, and I've done videos and articles about this, but the Soviets never, the Soviets lost cosmonauts to oxygen fires before, like in the early days, like 62, I want to say. Von Duranko was the cosmonaut's name. It was a routine test on the ground and he succumbed to an oxygen fire. So the Soviets were smart enough not to use pure oxygen, whereas NASA refused to use the heavier and more complicated dual gas system. So the Soviets had something more akin to breathable air at sea level than NASA ever used. Cool. That's awesome. I love that. There's a little capsule for Yuri. All right, well, I can put some of this together. Okay. Yeah, I'm going to paint it. I'm going to have to paint it. It's too cute, not to. I was just about to ask what Pete's chewing on, but it's happening upstairs. No, it's definitely something I don't know. All day, they were hammering something. It's almost sounds like they're installing new floors, but like very gently. It's like, it's annoying, but it's not annoying enough to where you need to go and be like, all right guys, this is getting ridiculous. But yeah, I don't know. Either that or there's like tap dancing and heels. You are on. Here's the clear bits. That's not a piece of the model. That's park glue. So that's clear, but what about, where is it? Oh, here it is. Oh, I don't know what to paint that. Where does that one go? Like none of this is, it's here's dark gray. I think that's a gray one. Okay. But the other half isn't actually clear. I mean, it's probably only clear so you can see it. I think it's clear so you can see it inside, yeah. It is, which is an interesting move. I do like that. Okay, so here's that. So Gagarin goes in this thing. Well, let's just tend to see what it looks like. Yes. Oh, yes it is. Ah, glass. Okay, this is cool. Yeah, okay, that's actually pretty neat. Yeah, can you flip that piece over? You can wrap it up. Just elastic it for the moment. Maybe. This is another one of those pieces with no like little spots to. Oh. Oh, there we go. I can hold it like this enough. All right. That's actually kind of awesome. No, there's an interstate or something, but here, let's... Thank goodness for green onions. Thanks, green onions. Babe, my salad tastes good, my models stick together. All right, there you go. Put this right here. All right, I'm cleaning up the little open staging structure for you. So which one are you working on? I'm cleaning up these pieces because I know they're coming up. And this ring, where's that? I saw that. This? Nope, nope. That, it's that. Definitely that, okay. Okay, that goes... Oh, like that, there we go. Easy, all right. So I think because of the way that this balance is on here. Yeah. Glue these pieces together. This assembly all goes together. This, I think you can leave, don't glue this piece. Right. Because then... You can't, Sputnik is right here. Sputnik came. Sputnik got messy because the glue is... Does Sputnik go in there? I don't know. I don't think that's where Sputnik goes. I'm looking at my computer like it's gonna help me, but it's not. Yeah, we'll figure it out. But let's not glue that right now. So you are on the... So I'm, yeah, I've got the... Okay. Yeah, see, they're installing something up there. I'm not totally sure what it is. All right, so I've got, I'm working from this way up. Okay, here I'll get this thing. Looks like a little... I don't see a piece that looks like that. Here's this little chrome bit. Yeah, I don't see any. No, those are, those are like boosters. Mm-hmm. Those are fins, right? That has to be... Oh, there's tiny little fins. I've never known where it is in fins. Look, right here. There's tiny little fins in the base. That's so interesting. They are tiny. I'll show you guys what the models built and how tiny the fins are. So if you can see, this is the fin and it goes at the base. This is a sketch, actually. It goes to the base, like, right here. Like, that's the tiniest little fin. So I'm curious as to how effective that is, but apparently it's quite effective. Interesting. I'd never know. I've looked at this picture so many times, I've never noticed that there were fins. This, I think, I can say is the glue right now. Okay. I'm curious if the fins are still on the current build of the rocket. I just can't imagine that they're very effective. I'd be very curious to see what the rationale behind fins that small on a rocket is so relatively large is. Clear piece? Does this go around the clear piece? I think so. That's odd. I think it's because on the actual rocket, the struts will not provide any support. So they put this clear piece in between to provide some support. That actually makes sense. Okay. It's weird that they put that little ribbon there, though. If that's the case, then I don't want to glue the struts to it yet just because I want to paint those so that they actually show up. Chrome. And here's the little chrome piece. So that goes on the bottom of... Oh, and it's right. This has to be the last piece. 18? Wait, there's, yeah, 18? Is that it? I don't know. It's not numbered. Oh yeah, this is just step 18. I don't think they'll have any numbers on there. Oh yeah, no, it's definitely this piece. Yeah. So I think it tucks under here. Yeah. Yeah, then it looks like the nozzle. So this is under the spacecraft, the nozzle pokes out, which is the little chrome piece. And then it sits into that clear piece with the struts. That's what that is. Okay. Yeah, here we go. Okay. Cool. Like this? Which way? That way. Yeah. Yeah. That's not a great fit. Is it the other way? I can't tell. There's an arrow. I think it, yeah, I think it is. Yeah, that definitely is the way. So I think we can definitely glue this piece on here. It can still be painted. Can you get in there? Yeah. Slowly but surely. I see more people who have only recently joined. Again, sorry for everyone who's been here since the start. This is my buddy, Lyle, who works for NASA and who builds model rockets. Hi, everybody. And this way I don't have to talk and try to figure it out myself. I can tag team it with someone who can talk rockets, can talk models and actually knows what they're doing. So, yes. Or at least can fake it well enough. Or can fake it well enough to make it look like this is a, I know how this build is going. Got that there. So you want to leave the struts off? Yeah, I'm going to leave them off because I can paint them. Okay. I'm going to glue this clear section on. Yeah, that's fine. I wonder, well, we'll figure it out. I always hate gluing clear parts because of the glue smears and it looks terrible, but I think this will be okay. So this stacks on here. Yeah. Structs go in there. Here it goes on top. I heard the struts not chrome. That's annoying. I don't think they're supposed to be chrome, I think. But they're that like dark, look, according to this picture, they're like the dark metal, right? Mm-hmm. So I've done a video about the open staging. So basically what this looks like is these are the starting bits. So the Vostok and Gemini have this as well. The stage, so it would have been this engine. Oh wait, can we put the little engine bell on here? That can go. That should be fine. We go. Boop! The engine bell, ah, it's broken. The engine would fire before physical separation of the rocket stages. So the space that was left by these struts, it was structurally enough to keep the rocket solid, but it meant that when the rocket started firing, the exhaust wouldn't burn something. So this was a way to have the staging happen without having to physically separate the rockets. I've talked about staging on the Saturn V, and it was done with all-inch motors, like small staging rockets, that would start separating the first, the stage that was about to fire at the second stage. They, from the first stage as it fell away, so you get a little bit of distance, and then the engine could fire. Having open staging meant that they didn't have to worry about that. So that's what that is. Yeah. But I want to paint them like the dark metal color that they are in the Vostok 1 pictures that I'm looking at. So we're not losing much right now. It can fire. So I don't know if, when these are together, if these can be put on, or if they should go on. Yeah, I think- I don't want to put them on now because then I won't be able to paint them because I'll get it on the plastic bit. All right, I was just wondering if we can paint or glue these two pieces together. I'm going to say- Probably not. Maybe not. I'm going to say no just because I want to paint the underside of the engine and stuff. Yeah. All right, we'll keep this. I think I have. Yeah, this is like, no, this is black. I have a dark- I'll set that there to dry. That's too- All right, well, that's most of it. Too shiny. There are these little thingies, but I think that has to wait until we, where are those? I don't know. Are they these things? They are these things. Oh. I don't know what those actually are. Let's look at our back. There are four of them. Where do they go? They go- Like on the service module thing? Right. Hmm. There. That's not in any of the diagrams I'm looking at. Oh. Oops. Huh. It's a hundred percent possible. Oh, don't know that. Most. Are you seeing- Are you seeing it? Well, I see where it goes. I'm just saying it's possible that these should have gone on before this other piece went on. We might have to modify it just a little bit to get it to get on there. Which is what I'm going to do. It looks like a little fin. This looks like a little fin. Oh, yeah. How many little fins on pasta? I'm learning so much. Let's see, okay. Um, yeah, this one isn't helping. Um, that's an Apollo model. That doesn't help at all. Okay, you're going to find four little tiny pieces of plastic somewhere. Well, I'll petal just to eat them. Well, I hope they're nutritious little pieces of plastic then. Clearly. Same people. Um, yeah, no, none of these diagrams are showing me what those things are. Oh, there it goes. Huh, okay. I think they're fins. I imagine so. Little teeny tiny fins. I guess we can glue those. That's probably fine. Yeah. I'm actually just going to squeeze a little bit of glue out on the mat here. And take a little tiny... That's good. Sorry, someone just posted, I heard a radio interview with Scott Kelly and when they asked me to get flat earthers, he said, if the earth were flat, wouldn't the edge of the earth be a really popular tourist spot? That's really good. I've never heard that. I really, really like that. Well, my question is, if the earth is flat, what's on the other side? Turtles. It's just turtles all the way down, holding it up. I think my favorite is, if the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything off by now. That is 100% true, they would have. Yep. I'm going to start cutting some of these... Going for the rocket motors? Oh, good gosh. Yeah, there's a whole bunch of little teeny tiny ones. Why does the Russians put so many motors on their rockets? I mean, isn't that why the N1 didn't launch? No, no, no, no. The N1, with its, was it... 27? Is it 42 or is it 30? I can't remember. I've had a lot of motors. One is the N1, one is, what's his name? Elon Musk. Oh, I think Elon Musk has 27? No, that's the Falcon Heavy. Oh, okay. The interplanetary transportation system. Or the planetary transfer, that crazy one that has like 50 rocks in the first stage. Cause when that came out, I did a video on the N1. And the N1, I'm going to look it up cause I have a computer here. N1 rocket. The whole thing was that there were, so the Soviet system doesn't work the way NASA does. And it's like, here, you're building the rockets. It's all different design bureaus. And one of the design bureaus was developing bigger rocket engines, but he didn't want to give it to Korolev, who was behind the N1 programs. He's like, fine, don't give me the bigger, more powerful rocket engines. I'll just add more of the ones that I have that work. Are you serious? Yeah, that's literally how it happened. And the Soviet program is incredibly complicated. Just in terms of the way all the design bureaus worked and didn't work and like the people in charge, it wasn't, it was so different structurally than NASA, which allowed them to do a lot of things really early on, but also did things like leave the N1 with how many engines it has. Still this thing, number 15. I don't see that anywhere. I don't know what that is. Why 24? The N1 had 30 rockets, 24, a ring around six of them. That is so many rockets. And I think Musk's has, I want to say it's something that's like 42, because the answer to life, the university, everything, obviously. But yeah, I think that's what it is. I almost feel like he was like, let's make a rocket with 42 motors on it. Yep. I mean, I wouldn't entirely be surprised to be honest. Yeah, I have no idea what number 15 is. So step 15 has a little teeny tiny piece. It says one on each side. I don't know what that means. I don't even see that anywhere. So we are going to skip that part. I hope it's not important. It's just the tubes that connect the oxygen to the spacecraft. It's fine. He'll be fine. Here he's fine. Okay. Okay. So, step three. What are we at here? Step three. So you start here. Oh my God, there's four of these. Yes. One for each booster. Oh, there's five of them. Oh no, yeah, right. For one for the fuselage too. So it's these. We're starting with these. This is ridiculous. Cool. But look, they all come bunched together. So it's not like I have to do four individual ones. That's... Oh, they do. Oh, okay. I thought they were, I thought each one was separate. I would quit and go home. Like these little hats that I am cutting up. I don't really know what these are, but... Wait, what are you doing? They're almost number 11 and 12. Hmm. I just thought I'd get them ready so that when we got to that point and gluing them, I could just pop them together. Well, they look like they go inside. The most frustrating part about all these instructions, there's no advice on how to paint it. So some model kits, this one not, I guess, will come with a list of what color paint you need. They'll even give you the tester color code and then they'll identify what parts you can color or paint. No, I was really actually quite frustrated that it didn't have it. Is this the box? This is not the V2U box. This is the box. Okay. If you were wondering, we are building the Vostok. What is this? The MPC one to 100 scale Vostok rocket that has a Vostok SA shurik and sputnik. I don't know what shurik is. Have you heard that before? I've never heard that. Does not sound familiar, but it must be the capsule that Yuri was in. I guess so. So it gives you a bunch of Soviet decals and by a bunch of, I mean, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven Soviet decals. And it gives you a little, I always, I have Vostok, which I know is Vostok, but it gives you a little bit of information about the rocket, but it's giving you, oh, we should be looking at this for facts, but it's- Oh, it went around Earth according to the kickflip. It's, this is, yeah, this is giving you stuff about the rocket, not about the model, but it actually does have, huh, interesting, it's got a Soviet countdown, because they don't do, I think they like physically, at least in the days of like the early Vostok, they actually like physically hit a fire button to launch the rocket. I'm not gonna try to pronounce it, so they've got like the Soviet countdown transliterated in English to, I'm gonna mess this up, but Piat, Chitira, Trey, Dvan, Odin, start. Start? It says start, so I don't know, I would love to see what it looks like in Cyrillic, but it does give you, also shows you, I'll see if I can bring this closer, can you pass my ground control, what do you do? Thank you. There's- A little bit left, okay. So there's got three pins, I actually have all of these pins, which is pretty neat, but one of these days, I should show you guys some of the pins that I actually have. I bought, thank you, I bought a whole whack of them off eBay at one point, and I don't know how many of them are authentic or like reduced, but whatever they look awesome, and I don't care, but I do actually have some of these original, like the Vostok three, four, and five, six, they have some really nice companion pieces for that. But yeah, okay. What's happening? I don't know, this got really complicated. Why are there- There's only four, oh, there's maybe not a middle rocket? Is there, maybe there's something on the other side of the story? Yeah, there's definitely something. There's, oh, God, I hate when they give you the, so if you guys can see this, these are the individual like thrust rockets. I hate when they do that. So I've got one, I've got an Apollo, what is it? It's the, oh my God, words. Words are hard right now. It's a command service lunar module. I've used, it's the one that I've used in videos to demonstrate things. It's the one that the service module pops open, so you can see where the oxygen tanks are and stuff. It's awesome. It's one of my favorite models. I've lost all of the RCS thrusters because they're in little packs of four on Apollo, right? You've got like the block in the middle and then the one, two, three, four. So you've got RCS on all sides. That one didn't come with like the packs of four that you glue onto the model. It came with like the little nugget in the middle and then the individual thrusters and they all, I've moved that model from Phoenix to North Carolina to LA. And these models don't travel very well. Like you can try as hard as you want to wrap them in newspaper and keep them protected, but it's a hot mess of like plastic rolling around in newspaper on the back of a truck for four days. Like they just fall apart. So sadly, a lot of those have fallen, but that looks, what are you doing? So there's some preformed holes in here, but they got filled in with plastic. So hopefully I can drill one out. I don't have a, does something have to go in there? Well, if it's thin enough, you can just kind of scoop it out, but I think it's a little bit thicker than that. That's a little bit plastic, it's fine. But I don't know what this is for. That looks like if you're just lazy and you don't want to do something. I don't, I mean- No, you know what it is. This glues into this. Cause look at this. Oh. This, see these pieces? They go right there. I'm so confused. Right? Oh my God, is there, is, what is that? That's this piece here. So it goes in the center. So that's the fuselage. No, but the, oh okay. Cause there's the, there's the main core and the four boosters. So that, these are the four boosters. And then this- Oh, this is the center. This is the main- The center stage, core stage. And then all of these pieces go on there. I do not know why we have this. Oh my God. And there's actually no indication of what it is on the pack. No. And it has one of those thick pieces that you gotta cut. Oh, look. What? This is, this is the assembled- Ooh, I hope that- Oh, don't roll the knife. That doesn't roll onto me. Let's not like- Yeah. So this piece here that they're showing do not cement, that's what we're building here. I don't know- What in hell is this? What that is. Oh, wait. Right? Does it- I'm really confused. I'm sorry, this is really, this got really confusing. So- Does this need to come out? Oh, wait, you know what this is? Hold on. Oh, wait, wait, are those tanks? Wait, some of these are tanks and some of them are engine nozzles. That has to be it. I think what this is. So it says do not cement. And everywhere it says do not cement is where you switch it out. Is this supposed to be a different rocket? Is this butnic launching? And this is Uri launching? More motors, bigger motors? This is just- Maybe. But if that's the case- That doesn't make sense because there's a hole in both of them and there's only a center stage. Is this a piece? No. So here's what I think. I always love this moment, like two hours into a live film and you're like, oh God, I don't know what's happening anymore. I think that this assembly here, I think this is the rocket, this is the motor assembly for when Uri's launching. And when Uri's not launching, you pull it out and you put this in and then Sputnik is launching. I don't know. Does that make sense? I don't know. You keep putting this together. I'm gonna see if there was a different, honestly, if there was a difference between the two. Yeah, I don't know. So this one, it's got rocket motors and it looks, well, not really. It's got the end of what looked like rocket motors, but you don't have to do anything. It's just there. And this one, you've gotta put a bunch of pieces together and then there's stuff that goes on the inside that you'll never see unless you take them out. Little hats. I'm still cutting up these little hats. I don't know what they are. Ooh, but that just snapped in place. That was nice. Yeah, I don't know what's going on here. It doesn't, it's not, I want, like, hang on. I want a picture of the rocket not launching. I know, I want a picture of the business end of this rocket right now. Well, while you do that, I'm gonna try to get this fourth opening cut out and see Pete is still not. He's not, it's so funny. I thought for sure he'd be all over this. Look at Vostop's variance and see if that gives us any indication. So that looks like, given what we've just built, that, this looks like it's the Uri Vostop, but this isn't giving me any indication of the structure. It looks the same. The bottom looks the same. It looks, no. Yeah, see, they're orange on the bottom with the cargo, with the ISS launches. Uh. Uh. Oh, look, look, oh, that's what we have. Yeah, and that is also not in English. Of all the languages I can vaguely decipher, Russian is not one of them. Oh. Okay, what, what is that? That's, that's got, that's this one because you've got four motors. Yeah. And then you've got these two smaller ones off to the side. There are so many engines on this thing. Oh my God. Oh my God, the Russian like motto is just more rockets, more engines. What is this? I would like to see. 42 engines, isn't that much? No, it's, but it's not telling me, I want, I want this to tell me, I'm like looking at the, okay, everyone in this picture is wearing a jacket. So it's definitely the 60s. But that doesn't really help. It doesn't tell me what it is. I don't know. Did you ever finish cutting out your party hats? No, I'm still working on it. Here's most of them. Oh wait, no, those are not the party hats I'm looking for, sorry. These are not the party hats you're looking for. I'm going to start worse too. So proud of you. Well, no, these ones right here. Oh, do you want me to work on those first? If you want to work on those, sorry, keep working on what you're working on because once I'm done with these, then I'll need those I think. And also there are little tiny motors somewhere. I think those are, oh, these? Yeah. Oh jeez. Right? I hate when they do that. I hate when they take the tiny diamonds. All right, so at this point, a lot of this. Okay, I'll start getting my stuff ready. Can we glue this together and just paint it? Like, this is all going to be like a dark. This is all going to be a dark. A dark gray. That's fine, unless you want super high fidelity in your model. Nope. Okay, we're good. I don't know, I should ask you guys, do you guys want me to paint every individual piece so it looks even better? Because I'm exclusively using this to demonstrate things for you guys. I'm going to say no. I'm going to say that you all said no. I haven't seen a reaction yet. There's a chance that the chat that I'm watching is- Let's make a decision now. Make a decision now? Based on their thoughts. Okay, good. I like the way this is going. Thank you for having me. John Carl Stanton says yes, please. Do, oh, Quinn didn't ask if we, either of us would ever like to be astronauts. Yes, I would love to be an astronaut. Did you ever reply? Yes, I applied and since I haven't told you that I was rejected, this is my official letting you know that I wasn't rejected. I just didn't get accepted. It's not like they wrote me a letter and are like, you are not the right stuff. Did you make Zero get accepted? No, he did not. Damn. So there were 18,500 roughly. This is the largest number of applicants, I think ever, I think it's the largest ever and they're taking what, 12? So it was, they were going to accept up to 14. Oh my God. So slightly worse than one in a thousand applicants. So yeah, I applied and then I get in. I don't think I knew you applied. Oh, yeah, I will apply again. I've actually, so to, sorry, who last? Quinton, I don't believe, I know Quinton, but thank you for your question. So Quinton, I actually, my background, originally I was a classroom teacher and when I was in school, NASA had a program called the Educator Astronaut Program and the Educator Astronaut Program allowed teachers to apply to become astronauts with the idea being that they would inspire young people to pursue careers in the STEM fields. So. What was this? I was in my undergrad from 98 to 2002. I'm a little, I'm only thinking of this because the event I was at last night, Krista McAuliffe was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame. I'm sort of amazed they did another teacher in space program after that. So, so part of the, well, so they changed the name in part because of the connection to Challenger. So Educator Astronaut Program. But it was also slightly different because Krista McAuliffe, she went through different training than what the other astronauts did. So it was a slightly different program. But with the Educator Astronaut Program, the way that it worked was you essentially applied and you became an astronaut candidate. You went through a degree of training then you were, you know, if you made it through then you were assigned to a mission and trained for that. Barbara Morgan was Krista McAuliffe's backup. Barbara Morgan's one of my favorite astronauts and she was Krista McAuliffe's backup. And then she was with NASA in the astronaut core for a very long time working in education, outreach and things like that. And finally got to go to space. Like, gosh, it was more than 20 years later. I forget how long ago. So yeah, she, Barbara Morgan's awesome. I think she teaches, I think she's a professor in, I don't know, or something like that. But anyway, so yeah, so they restarted this Educator Astronaut Program and the qualifications were, so if you want to be an astronaut, the qualifications are you need to have at minimum the bachelor's in a physical science degree, engineering or math, plus three years of professional experience. And for the Educator Astronaut Program, you need to have a master's degree in any field, X number of math and science credits in school. I forget what the X was. I'm just a little sad, I can never reply. But yeah, okay. Plus three years of teaching experience. So this program was around when I was in college. So I just filled up as many electives as I could with science and math. And I'm gonna have to think for a second here. So hold on, let me do what I'm supposed to do. I'm sorry you didn't get selected. Well, you know a lot of people didn't. I know. And so anyway, so I filled my undergrad and master's program with as many math and science credits as I could. Then I became a teacher and after three years I just waited for the opportunity to apply. Then the opportunity to apply came up. So they had a call for astronauts and I went to the website to apply and the Educator Astronaut program had been ended. So what they did is they got rid of the Educator Astronaut program. So I no longer qualified because my back source was in educational studies and my master's was in educational leadership. So they put a little note at the bottom, like we still strongly encourage teachers to apply, which is great. But that meant me as an elementary school teacher, very few of any elementary school teachers would have a degree in a science or engineering order. That looks like some sort of, you know who has that? Like this is from the Simpsons with the, who is that group, who controls Springfield, we do? They carry this, yeah, the stone cutters, yeah, this is. You know this jacket. Oh yeah, stone cutters, they. Stone cutter Homer. Oh yeah, yeah, so. For those of you who don't know, I can have full conversations of Simpsons quotes, comma, first nine seasons. But yeah, you're right, this really does. So anyway, so I went to apply and they said teachers strongly encouraged to apply, which meant I could not because I didn't have a degree in science. So then I went back to school and got a degree in science. Yep, I was pretty good at two master's degrees. Yeah, yeah. And then, yeah, so I applied this last time around and did not get in. But yeah, I mean, people ask me about like how do you become an astronaut? And it's like, well, you know, the basic qualifications, this degree, three years of experience, but they look for a little bit more than that. Yeah, I mean, so we have a friend, Mike, who, is he still in Murr? Is he still working on Murr? I can't remember. I think last time I talked to him, he was on Murr. I think he works on cold atom lab. I don't know what that is. It's a mission, it's an instrument that's going to the International Space Station and it will essentially create super cold environments to study things like Bose-Einstein condensates and it uses lasers. Awesome. But for a very long time, Mike was, he was doing like operations or something on Murr, the Mars exploration, it's right, Mars exploration. Mars exploration over spirit and opportunity. In this case, only opportunity still. Opportunity, because spirit, when did spirit die? Like 2005? No, it was 2008. 2008, I think it was one of the last signal. Right, because they landed in 2004. But Mike was so like pursuing every possible thing, like researching the astronauts that were joining the astronaut corps to make, to like meet all the qualifications and found that like, oh yeah, people that have gone to the Arctic for exploration missions or whatever have a high likelihood of joining and was like trying to find his way onto the ice and it's just like, I mean, this is a... I applied for a research opportunity in Antarctica. Did you really? I don't find out yet, or I haven't found out yet, but... Which one is it? A friend of mine did that. He did, I think he did three months hunting for meteorites and it's a signal. Searching for neutrinos. That's awesome. Is that through NASA or just? The National Science Foundation. Nice. So I would either have to take, figure out how to do it. NASA would give you leave for that? I don't know, maybe we should talk about that on the internet, but... You'd hope that NASA would give you leave or something that cool. That's awesome. I wanna do that, but like not have to work. A friend of mine, she's getting ready. I think she leaves in like three weeks and she'll leave there for a month. Yeah, I feel like, I know, I've heard a few people that have done it and they've all said that it's just like, it's all kinds of weird. But JPL had a pretty good representation as far as applicants. Couple of people I know got selected for interviews. And somebody who she is a Caltech, or I should say was a Caltech postdoc researcher and used to be, she was a JPL intern when she was getting her PhD. She was selected for the astronaut corps. So yeah, when it was announced, I looked and I was like, Jessica Watkins, that name sounds familiar. That's awesome. That's so cool to know an astronaut for their own astronaut. So long answer, yes, I would like to go to space someday. Yeah, I would love to go to space someday. Unfortunately, I am too short and I am medically unfit and I don't have any of the required science degrees. So I'm not going. And that's the end of my lab story. No, I really do wanna do one of these orbital plates. And I'm hoping that at some point, somebody will be like, we really need a good communicator to really transfer their enthusiasm to the public about this event. And that will be me. That's what I'm hoping for. Here's all the things that go on the other end of those rockets, I think. Okay, so these things go on there. That is 16 of these little things that get... Why? Right? Do you want me to do that? I think you should do that. And I'm gonna continue working on the core stage. Okay, okay. Oh, should I quit? What piece? I don't know. It's one of these things. I have the big piece here. But it was not that. Oh, here, this. Oh, yeah, that's it, thank you. Let's look at some other questions. And what is this? I have absolutely no idea. I don't see this anywhere. I'll move the glass, I don't want to move the glass. Okay, this is yours. Yes, this is my paint thinner glass that I use. Well, let me keep this so you can sort of see what we're doing. Sorry, I didn't plan this very well, shot-wise, to like make sure you could see it. But it's really not actually that exciting. I am gluing these little stovepipe hats onto the back ends of rocket engines. Oh my God, I can't believe these don't come in quads. That's so cool. Yeah, I mean, everything else on what she's working comes in sets of four, except for whatever she's putting on right now. Too much glue. Too much glue. Damn it. It's inside. I don't know who's gonna see. That's true, it's inside. I don't want to do anything like this. I can scrape it off. Can I? Yes. No, never mind. I'm not even gonna say it. Okay. Am I doing this the right direction? Yes, okay. How is Pete? Someone just asked, oh, it's Chris, hey, Chris. How is Pete? Pete is great. I mentioned earlier, some of you guys might have heard. I expected him to be up here. I'm actually amazed he doesn't come up when I'm doing these things more often because he loves like, putting stuff into his face. This is a cat. But I'll put Pete Conrad back up here for you guys. But yeah, I got home, I was in San Diego last night for a Hall of Fame induction at the San Diego Air and Space Museum. And I got back and my smoke alarm was tripping. I'm gonna help you out here and take four of these. Okay. These are terrible. Right? They're annoying, but they're like weirdly smooth on time. I know, it's kind of satisfying. But I think Pete was really stressed out because the alarm was going off all night. So I think once I got home, I got it fixed immediately. He kind of calmed down. So I think he might be passed out right now, but I'll try to wake him up and get him up here. I had a meeting the other day, just like a table read the seeker because you saw that on Instagram. My flight was canceled after I got up at 4.30 in the morning, got myself to the airport. Everything was good to go. I was gonna go to San Francisco for the day for work and then my flight was canceled. And I couldn't get there in time to actually make the meetings and the shoot times and stuff. So I ended up staying from home and just like table reading all the episodes. And then I didn't shoot them. Trace, I assume some of you guys probably have seen him on DNews slash seeker throughout the episodes. And we had this like three hour table read meeting where I was projected on the big screen in this meeting room at the end of it. They're like, so I think after three hours we deserve some Pete time. So I had to like wake Pete up and bring him into this meeting. Okay, okay. I thought for a second we lost one, but no, we're good. We're good. Yeah, I lied when I said 16 of those little things. There's 20, but I took four of them. Thank you. And now these little things, four of them? One, two, three, four. Which, the crummy things? Wait, look at this. Yeah, there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Nine, 10, 11, 12, set, two. No, that can't be right. Six. And I suddenly. Two, four, five. Is that how many we said? 12? There are 12 of them. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Now you have annoying gluing. I'll do these once, don't worry. They face out, right? So they'll be like this. They will go on the side with, yeah. Yeah, okay. I suddenly really, really, clearly guys, I haven't looked into this before, but I really want to look into the structure of the number of engines on the R7. Cause I actually, I've seen a Soyuz, sorry. I've seen a Soyuz before a lot. I've seen pictures of it and stuff. I actually never realized how many engines there are. And I know I owe you guys a video. When I was in Kansas at the Cosmosphere. I still need to go there. You've never been there? Kansas is one of the few states I've never been to and that is my reason for going. I'm going to go to the Cosmosphere one of these days. You should absolutely owe. You'd love it. It's so, so good. But yeah, there was a little exhibit that said the Saturn V had 85 rockets. What? Because of allege motors and reaction control clusters. And I'm like, now I need to go back and count all 85 rockets. Like I'm so curious. I have to know where all these 85 rockets are. Cause they had, there was apparently allege motors that I've never paid attention to that are different than the staging rockets. I don't know. I have to go in and look. So one of these days I'm actually gonna try to figure out how to actually count them all. This way to do it. Oh, they don't actually go through. Do they go through? Can I see yours? On mine, it's just a little like different. Okay, yeah. So I have to. They should just like go into the hole. So I'm just gonna put glue here and then pop it in, I guess. I think that's, I am more curious. I feel like the stone cutters, like what is this? Oh, so these go into, Every Oscar night we do. Flip that over. And there's a little hole in the middle and this part sticks down the back. Oh, why? No one ever sees that. Fidelity, I guess. And what does it connect to? Nothing. Perfect. I'm gonna scrape a little bit of this chrome off here though. I can be helpful and do that on the end of this too. There you go. Though these are actually going all the way through. What are? Not like all the way through, but like they're just sitting nicely into it. I mean, I assume there's some sort of pop. It's gotta be like a fuel injector or something. Or like, yeah, some kind of. It's weird that they're just there, not connected to anything. Right? If you're gonna put them in a model, on the inside of the booster. If you're gonna put them in a model, put them someplace where you can actually figure out what it is that they do and why they exist. 12 year old me wants to like take some wire and connect it to something else. 12 year old me was a nerfert. I'm 100% in agreement with that. Yep. 37 year old me is also kind of wishes they connected to something. Veneers. Each engine has four main nozzles and either two or four veneers. I've never seen that work before. Not. L-E-R-N, where is it? V-E-R-N-I-E-R-S, veneers. I mean, if it wasn't Russian, it sounds French, veneers. Yeah, right? Who said that? Now we'll see. Thank you for that. I'm gonna look into this. The one thing that I love about building these is that it brings up so many things that I've never thought to look into, so I'm really quite curious. Okay, so wait, how do you, should I glue these here? How do they go? So according to this. It doesn't really say what direction they're facing. I mean, this one's pointing off to, they're, this one's pointing, I mean, they're not perpendicular and that bothers me. I think just put them in. V-R-N-A-E-E-Y. Oh, steering rockets. I've just never heard them called that. Huh, I'm learning so much from you guys. Thank you. Um. Right, um, do I not do this one? I don't think I should. Yeah, I don't know what direction this thing is supposed to go in. My inclination is to put it facing towards the middle for some reason, but like, I'm making that up. I think we should do that. Except for the one in the middle. That's the one in the middle. Yeah, I don't know where that one will point. I don't think it matters. Weird. I think you should make them all point to the middle. And then the one- I'm gonna glue these in and I can just paint around them. And this one, I'll just- Also have this- The strangest model part ever. Yeah. No, this is still strange not to me. Oh yeah. Cause of the, I don't- Cause there's no where that it shows. I don't actually see an instruction that mentions it. Right? Yeah. Well, also this. Which one? This thing. Also these? Yeah, I don't know. What are these two? I don't know. There's no where that these giant fins go. I don't see, I still don't totally see how this actually goes together. So, can I see this? Yes. This goes in here. I'm still confused as to why there's two- I'm gonna glue this piece on here. Wait, I think this goes here. Oh yeah. But I don't know where. That does fit there. But what goes here? I think you should put the stone cutters thing on. Yeah, I don't know why that is- And does this thing, this thing comes off? Wait. So, does this fit on there? There's no reason to do that. No. I don't get it. No, I still don't understand what this piece is for. This is maddening. This is so dumb. On its original release, okay, so Richard commented. On its original release, that kid had an option for flying the rocket with those cardboard-to-rocket motors. The extra parts are still in the box but are now not covered in the instructions. Oh. Thank you. Thank you so much. You know what would be great if there was like in this little box stock pamphlet, they actually told you that. That's so interesting. Okay, so with that mean, I assume, and here's the comment from Richard. Actually flying, how cool. So, I used to always wanna do that with some of my old, like when I was some of my space shuttle, models and my old rocket models, I always thought it'd be cool to put the motors in, but I never did that. Have you ever launched like a model Estes rocket or Estes rocket? Yeah, it's fine. There's some rocket builders at work who launch the big ones that go really high, yeah. Because NASA. But yeah, it's fun. I used to, I did some when I was a kid, I've done them as an adult. So that's why there's a hole in this thing. Richard, if you wanna weigh on this, that's why there's a hole is that this would be. That's a big motor too. This would be where you put the motor to launch your model, I assume. Let's see if he's, blue might have a fire. Yeah, I know that too. That's it. That is the thing, you know Neil Armstrong used to do that too. He used to build a lot of models and when they were broken or he got bored of them, he'd light them on fire and something that was better than that. I used to take my Star Trek models and when I would build them, I would actually take some of my fireworks and I would line the insides of them with my fireworks and there would be one part, like I built them with the intention of blowing them up and then I'd run a fuse out the back or something like that. And then I was practicing my movie special effects and then I would blow them up. It was fun. So yeah, so this just needs to hang out and dry for a little bit, but that's the bottom rocket with 20 motors and 12 steering motors. Yeah, Vernier, no, Vernier. Vernier. Oh, did we get a pronunciation? We did, we got a phonetic translation. Let me look back up at this. Vernier. Oh, so it is from French pronunciation, Vernier. See, my Frenchness in me wants to call it Vernier. Yeah, Vernier, okay. My French last name that I do not pronounce in the French way. That's true. It makes me want to say ear. Vernier. So yeah, it just kind of tucks in under there. I'm not gonna do it right now, but. Can still kind of tacky, but yeah. Huh. Perfect, so my sound effects. So that sounds like when a rocket launches. So wait, we never figured out. So these things. These things, so we've got some. Oh wait, okay, no, no, no, no, here we go. Right, that's gonna be. These are stabilizers if you use the motor kit, because you need bigger stabilizers on a motor. These are for jamming the rocket kit into. No, that's not this one. No, it's not that. It's not the mystery piece that we don't have. I think these, oh look, here they are. Look, these are tiny, these are the tiny fins. No, no, no, no, these are the fins for, no, no, no. We're talking about two different things. No, the tiny, these tiny fins. Yeah. But look right next to the tiny fins. Oh my God, there's something out there. I thought that was just like. The rest of the tree. I thought that was just stock plastic. All right, let's put those on. But where? Can we put those on? I don't. It's in the box stock. We can't put them on, but I'm still, I'm gonna paint that one. Oh, but it goes right here. See that little hole there? Yeah. That's where they won't go. I didn't even see it. I thought it was. I know, I thought it was part of the tree. If you guys can see, here's the tiny little fins that we should, I'm gonna cut these out and clean them up, but like, and we're not supposed to cement those. Oh, I get it. So it says, do not cement the bottom in place because you can swap it out to launch. Right. Do not cement the fins because if you need the bigger fins. I think you can cement the fins. I'm gonna cement the fins. I'm not gonna launch it. Honestly, I don't need anything bigger, but how do these fins even go in? The big ones? There's no like, hole, right? Oh. You're messing up my awesome rubber band job. I mean, it looks like it would go, like, clips into there, but then there's- But there's no, there's no fentanyl glue. You can see there's a little, the plastic is really thin. You could cut out a hole. Oh yeah. Interesting. We learned so much from you guys. Cool. I wanna buy one of these and build it to launch. All right, so don't need this. So I'm gonna put these in place because I don't wanna lose them. And then, and then this is like the, this is like the lowest. You gotta wait for me to sell it. I know. Pay some more. This is like the least satisfying build I feel cause we're not coming out with a finished rocket cause I decided after the fact that I wanna actually paint it and make it look like the boss I wanted back. But I leave everyone in anticipation, right? There will be pictures on my Instagram when I finally do do it. So these are dry enough that we could- I ruined it. You picked that. I ruined it. Now you've done it, done it. True. I don't even know what you did. Oh, this is terrible. Wait, what were you doing? I was gonna put the fin then. Oh, okay. So that I don't lose them. Got it. It's mostly, mostly because I just don't wanna lose the last tiny little pieces. I can keep track of these ones but these fins are gonna get left. We'll probably take it apart. No, okay, let's leave it together. Wait, before we, let's take it apart to put those on but before we do that let's- I wanna put it back together and put Yuri on top as like the half finished version and then we can actually show it and be like signing off. Close guys. This has been like, there were almost three hours. So we take the rocket motors here. Yeah. Hang on. Oh, these are not lined up. We shouldn't do that if these are lined up. Let's pretend the rocket motors are on. Here we go. Oh, that's a disaster. Wait, let's turn it so they can see. There you go. There's Yuri right there. That's it. Wait, let's get all the stuff out of the way. So that's sort of what the last one was. What is this? With motors on the side. Oh, this is such a let down of a reveal. I feel, I'm sorry. I will paint this. I will paint this eventually. I have to get the right color. I don't think, let me see what color gray this is. I don't know if this is gonna be dark enough gray. I feel like it might be too light. No, it's definitely dark enough gray. Sweet. Why is this half empty? I went to the store to buy this the other day and the people working in the model shop, I actually stood there for like 15 minutes at the counter before they even like acknowledged my resistance and I was like. What model shop are you going to? There's a like model train store like two miles this way. Oh, they have an awesome neon sign out front. They do. If you drive by at night. I've never been inside but. I've only, my gym is right next to it. So I was like, okay, that's convenient. And then they were like annoying. But yeah, they apparently sold me a half finished, or a half empty bomb. But no, okay, I can do that. So I'll do it. But where's the other one? Are they all that? No, this one looks like it's more full. Oh, they feel pretty much the same. Weird. Maybe they'll just give you a big container. But when you dip your paintbrush in it doesn't overflow. I guess. I don't know. Anyways. I'm just trying to make up excuses here. So I've got the gray and the white. So I can actually, if we're going by. Yeah, I can do it. It's just gray and white. Sweet. All right, so I will put a picture of it on my Instagram and yeah, I'll put a picture of it on the community tab and also on my Instagram and on Twitter once I finish it. But here, there's the boss talk that's like sort of done, but not really. Yeah, the best. Okay, so this is two and a half hours. If I didn't have somebody sitting here like helping me figure it out, this would take me like seven hours. Yeah, awesome. Oh, I forgot about this. I'm gonna lose this. No, we should put all the little tiny pieces in a bag. Where did the little things go? Did we lose them? Concerned. Oh, here they are. Oh, okay, good, okay. Can you guys see that bag that's been ripped open? Okay, thank you. All right. I'm gonna cut off these little tiny pieces that we couldn't find. Oh, good call. Because we probably won't find them again. Um, cool. So I think we're done. So I think we're done being live on the internet. Cool. Thank you guys for sticking around, for those of you who stuck around. Did anybody, was anybody here the full three hours? I was in here the full three hours. I am trying to not allow Pete to eat all of these pieces, they will go in a box and I will protect them from Pete Conrad. Who is still sleeping? I don't wanna wake him up guys, but he says hi. Okay, so signed up. Do you want to tell people where they can find you on the internet? Usually do it at space theft sometimes. Yeah, I should, here you go, there's little pieces. Thank you. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram, liltab, L-Y-L-E-T-A-V, that's me. Yep, and you guys know where to find me, most likely, Instagram and Twitter for daily, daily on Twitter and maybe not as daily on Instagram, but still regularly, AST, Vintage Space. Of course, you are on my YouTube channel right now, Vintage Space, if you guys would like to see more live builds, I don't know if you'd be willing to come back and build more with me. But I do have the full set of Apollo Air launch vehicles, the Redstone, Atlas, Titan, Saturn 1B and Saturn 5, to scale from this vintage kit that I've actually been like lusting after for a really long time. I actually almost bought a vintage kit in Vegas, but it was like the one time I flew to Vegas, so I couldn't bring it back, but it's beautiful and I finally got my hands on one, so I'm gonna build that. 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