Posts: 52541
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 06-07-2024 02:53 PM               

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Originally posted by Pearson:
...any advise as what to include in this endeavour

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The Bandai space shuttle Endeavour is my favorite model of the vehicle. I bought one on the secondary market (from the Buy, Sell, Trade forum right here on cS), having made the error of sitting out of the original offer.

Remember that their primary target market is Japan. Endeavour was the shuttle they chose to reproduce because it was the orbiter that carried the first Japanese payload specialist, Mamoru Mohri.

So I would look for another Japanese connection to sell the idea. Maybe it is Discovery configured for its role in launching the Kibo pressurized module, or, if the desire is to have Columbia, maybe it is STS-65, which included Chiaki Mukai, the first Japanese woman in space.