Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. And while that has its place on the space station's stand, the official LEGO product page literally includes the statement "dock the shuttle" with a picture that's also on the box of the space shuttle approaching the front of the ISS model in order to dock. It seems to be a genuine "play feature":. But I have no idea how the shuttle is supposed to actually dock, i.
Besides this picture there is no hint on how to do that and the instructions don't include guides for that either. I also thought maybe it's the other way around although that would possibly contradict physical reality , but the bottom of the shuttle is covered in float tiles. So is there a way to actually dock the space shuttle to the ISS?
Is there an official build way that the instruction is just coy of mentioning? Does that possibly involve the hinged parts with the airlock prints on them that are right next to the supposed shuttle dock? Or are there any "inofficial" ideas on how to accomplish it, possibly involving additional parts? I know there are concerns about the space shuttle being a bit out of scale for the ISS when measured against reality and that a custom bigger shuttle might be more appropriate anyway.
However, I still wonder how to dock the officially included shuttle model. At least not with a stud-on-stud connection like the set is designed right now. As seen in picture below, Shuttle is docked using a connection port inside storage bay with its doors open. Not sure if it is possible to replicate opened doors in scale Shuttle and ISS are built. However if you neglect the lack of this feature and accept the docking with storage bay doors closed a little modification could solve the issue.
Existing Fez piece attached to ISS isn't deep enough to accept Tile, Round 1 x 1 with Bar and Pin Holder to invert stud to anti-stud so an addition of Plate, Round 1 x 1 with Open Stud aka "Apollo stud" in between both of them will help modifying the docking port. It just so happens that I have this set and have come up with a way to attach it without adding pieces:. All this requires is to move the two second-to-back float pads, take off the fez piece from the dock, attach it in the revealed anti stud on the bottom of the shuttle and put the fez piece back on, with the shuttle on top.
I know it's not realistic because it's literally put on backwards to the way it is in real life and intended by NASA, but that's just my little way of docking the shuttle. Technically, it does not take all three men to do the job. Padalka, who is one of the most experienced Soyuz pilots extant, has joked that he could fly the thing with two cabbages in the other seats.
But in the event of Soyuz emergency requiring an immediate reentry, all three men must be aboard—lest a solitary pilot come home, leaving five people aboard the ISS and only three seats on the remaining Soyuz. The crew will then undock from the Poisk and re-dock to the nearby Zvezda module, or service module—a straight distance of only a few dozen yards.
Two of the newly arriving crew members will be only short-timers, staying on the station for just 10 days. Write to Jeffrey Kluger at jeffrey. Need a lift? A Souyz spacecraft after undocking from the space station on June 11, Download the NBC News app for breaking news and politics. The mission's Falcon 9 rocket blasted off with the same first-stage booster that lofted a crew into orbit five months ago, marking the first time a previously flown booster has ever been re-used in a crewed launch.
Reusable booster vehicles, designed to fly themselves back to Earth and land safely rather than fall into the sea after launch, are at the heart of a re-usable rocket strategy that SpaceX helped pioneer to make spaceflight more economical.
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