This is part of an occasional series about objects that live in my studio.

There’s Return Journey.  That was a study model. That changed at least three different times.  It was rebuilt three times. There used to be a concrete foundation, and then the landscaping changed a lot. 

The grass is a broom–I took a broom and cut it up. And rocks from a parking lot! The model is made of cardboard and plastic and metal. 

I was able to build it to scale, because the real rocket was on the ground at the time, so I could take detailed measurements of it.  I just had to figure out how I was going to build it. That was fun, though.

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