Hi Paul. Your action man astronaut may need transportation.
Here's my Space capsule signed by Scott Carpenter, one of the original Mercury 7. He said he’d never seen one before and thought it was a very good model.
I met Scott at an Autographica event ,I think in Coventry if I remember correctly about 20 years ago. He was a lovely man , very chatty and engaging. My son James, who was about 6 at the time, had a lovely chat with him . They say never meet your heroes but meeting Scott Carpenter was a real treat for us . A lovely man !
Carpenter's Mercury capsule was the Aurora 7.
ReplyDeleteI feel the kit company missed a trick there, by not making a model of it.
Deffo a chance for Aurora I agree Mish!
DeleteWhere did you meet Scott Will?
ReplyDeleteI met Scott at an Autographica event ,I think in Coventry if I remember correctly about 20 years ago. He was a lovely man , very chatty and engaging. My son James, who was about 6 at the time, had a lovely chat with him . They say never meet your heroes but meeting Scott Carpenter was a real treat for us . A lovely man !
DeleteThat is awesome! What a wonderful memento!
ReplyDeleteDoesn't get any better than an astronaut signature on the box.
ReplyDeleteWill - can you measure the diameter and length of the capsule? Me and Woodsy have been arguing about the size of it! Bill
ReplyDeleteHi Bill. It’s 13” long with a base diameter of 9” . Who won the argument?
DeleteHa ha - that remains to be seen! Bill
DeleteIt’s just big enough for a standard action man
ReplyDeleteThanks for that Will. I think I won the argument. Bill described it as a massive thing!
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