The Space Shuttle Gift Set completes Airfix\u2019s 2025 Space range, available with all the necessary glue, acrylic paints and brushes to complete the kit.<\/p>\n
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Airfix has announced the re-release of the Space Shuttle Gift Set in 1:144 into its Space Range. From the engineers of NASA to the detailed scale model that Airfix has produced, this kit is now available as a Gift Set which features all the necessary glue, acrylic paints and brushes to complete the kit.<\/p>\n
The Orbiter, External Tank and Solid-fuel Rocket Boosters can be completed in one of seven marking options and displayed on the included display stand. Once built, it can be displayed on its custom stand, complete with a name plaque from the decal sheet. With a skill rating of level three, the kit includes 94 parts and measures 393mm in length and 165mm in width.<\/p>\n
Following the success of NASA\u2019s Apollo programme, the next phase in space exploration was to develop a partially reusable, low-earth orbital space transportation system to allow more astronauts to travel into space by further extending the boundaries of engineering excellence. Over three decades, 135 missions took place, carrying hundreds of crew members from countries around the world. The Shuttles launched many diverse payloads, from the scientific and communications satellites; astronomical observatories, planetary probes, laboratories, many of the Internation Space Station components and the largest single payload, the Hubble Space Telescope.<\/p>\n
Over 30 years, five of these Space Shuttles successfully achieved earth orbit, with Discovery becoming the most active craft, completing 39 flight missions and spending 365 days in space.<\/p>\n
To see this new set and more, visit Hornby Airfix\u2019s website<\/a>. Readers can get in touch with the Sales team on 01843 233 500 or at\u00a0sales@hornby.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Space Shuttle Gift Set completes Airfix\u2019s 2025 Space range, available with all the necessary glue, acrylic paints…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-217989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}