Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness: The Only Time Their Spacecraft Didn't Look Like Junk

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

The Only Time Their Spacecraft Didn't Look Like Junk

On a pure design level, you can't do much better than Sputnik.

6 comments:

Budd said...: My daughter has a homemade model of this in her room. We made it out of a styrofoam ball and shishkabob sticks and spray painted it silver.; December 14, 2011 at 7:15 AM
D.I. Felipe González said...: Nice design, indeed. Soviets seemed to hate good design, they got stuck in the constructivist phase until they spoiled it.; December 14, 2011 at 8:17 AM
Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...: Which I call their 'junky' phase.; December 14, 2011 at 11:51 AM
Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...: Budd - you just went onto my list of greatest dad's ever.; December 14, 2011 at 11:52 AM
Budd said...: just so you know. spray paint will melt styrofoam. so ours has some micro meteorite damage.; December 14, 2011 at 2:30 PM
Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...: I knew spray paint did that but I didn't want to be a critic. Yours just looks worked is all.; December 14, 2011 at 2:35 PM

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