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What You'll Find in a
Space Craft SCIENCE KIT

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The main ingredient of a Space Craft SCIENCE KIT is, of course, the laser-cut parts sheets. You can see some pictures of selected parts of these parts sheets among the pages of the online Catalog. The parts are lithographed where necessary to include proper color and detail, and some parts have bonded gold foil or silver foil to make them appear metallic, where appropriate.

Each Space Craft SCIENCE KIT offers much more than just a handsome scale model kit. It's full of accurate information; everything you could ever want to know about these amazing tools of space exploration. Every kit links to an online Fact Sheet. The text side of each Fact Sheet has clear explanations of the spacecraft and its mission, and the graphic side has a large line drawing of the spacecraft with lots of explanatory notes. Each kit also links to an online Presentation Guide, which is full of suggestions for ways to display your model, illustrating various facets of its operations in space. Presentation Guides are designed for group activity, such as classroom use. You can look at an image illustrating the typical layouts of the fact sheets and presentation guides in the kits.

You can see exactly what's involved in putting together a typical Space Craft SCIENCE KIT. The Assembly Instructions are right here online.


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