Mystery in Queens

[beamjockey]

Can you help solve a puzzle?


What is this spaceship?

I'm pretty sure this is the same model, in a different museum, before it settled at AMMI.

Comments

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Its the Leonov from the film "2010"

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Heck, that looks familiar!

... and my google-fu is failing me ... 8P

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

GOT IT!

It IS "DISCOVERY" from "2010" But its only PART of it.



Its two of the cargo modules from the mid section. And we know its from "2010" for two reasons. 1] the color, and 2] Kubrick had all the models from "2001" destroyed to prevent them from being used in other movies.

[whl.livejournal.com]

I like your theory, although the intermodule spacing looks a bit large. But the color issue and tri-lateral symettry says you're right on.

When your original image caption said Leonov, I was a bit skeptical, as I thought the Leonov was only bilatterally symmetric.

I'll screen the movie in the next day or so, and do some checking.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

If you recall, in "2010" there is a scene in which a couple of astronauts transfer by spacewalk from the Leonov to the Discovery, which is tumbling end over end (its carousel having long since seized up), and they land on the center section of the spine, which, as mentioned above, is yellow with sulfur ejected from Io's volcanoes. I think there had to have been a close-up model of this sort made for that scene.

(Incidentally, don't you think Clarke and Hyams seriously downplayed the nastiness of Jupiter's radiation environment in the vicinity of Io? I wouldn't go spacewalking around there, that's for sure.)

Got me.

[gypsy1969.livejournal.com]

I don't know but it looks familiar to me too (I'd say circa 1980) and I found these neato links
http://www.donaldscrankshaw.com/files/images_spaceship_comparison.jpg.
http://www.hybrid-home.com/catalog/spaceship.php
http://www.smarttinc.com/advertising.html
http://www.roundacrescrafts.co.uk/index.php?cat=Men_Boys
http://www.martinbowersmodelworld.com/html/space_1999.html (what I thought?)
What fun.
So what's the answer already?

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

It does look like section of the Discovery. Or could it be something from Space: 1999?

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

For latecomers who might care: Puzzle solved.

An interesting sidelight from Miriam Posner.