As its the bloggiversary I'm all reminiscingiful if such a word exists!
Seven years ago I was inspired to imagineer and blog some box art for a Project SWORD Huygens Titan Lander. I quite like it!
This week I was reminded again just how inspiring the mission to Titan was back in 2005.
I saw a repeat of a fabulous documentary about the mission, Cassini and its Titan lander called Huygens. The mission took 15 years from drawing board to touch-down. The voyage itself took seven years one way!
Cassini-Huygens remains the single furthest landing of a human agency in the history of space flight. Titan is one hell of a long way away.
It was an epic effort.
Looking again at my Lander box art I was reminded of just how similar Huygens, pictured below courtesy of NASA's artists, was to certain parts of vintage circular space toys.
Its sloped sides and flat surface is reminiscent of the undercarriages of all those plastic flying saucers and Moon Prospectors we loved as kids and still do!
It isn't one of these that I was thinking of though.
It isn't a Reese's Peanut Cup either, although they are very similar!
What I actually had in mind was the plastic baseplate of the Tri-ang SpaceX Lunar Orbiter, which you see pictured on Paul V's superb SpaceX website:
What would you use as a Titan Lander readers?
Right, I'm off to eat some Reese's Pieces I got for the birthday bash!
PS.
Goodbye Cassini, which crash landed on Saturn this weekend.
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