Building the Trumpeter 1/48th Scale NASA T-38 Talon plus Astronauts, Autographs, Personal Stories

This video chronicles the building of a Trumpeter 1/48th scale T-38 Talon with NASA insignia -- Kit #02878. Custom modification, decals, scratch building, painting, detailing and construction are covered.Show more

Additionally, NASA history and astronaut information is provided. Some astronaut autographs from my collection as well as personal stories meeting astronauts (including one who died aboard space shuttle Challenger) are presented.

Credits: NASA -- video, audio, images and mission patches.
Most NASA media material is not copyrighted and is in the public domain.
However, Max_Afterburner Channel hereby states that: NASA images, video, logos and audio are being used for educational, communicative, illustrative and informational purposes with facts of historical significance and does NOT constitute that NASA endorses or sponsors this channel and this video presentation.

Additional Reference: "Emblems of Exploration. Logos of the NACA and NASA". Monographs in Aerospace History No. 56 by Joseph R. Chambers and Mark A. Chambers. 2015. http://www.nasa.gov/ebooks

“NASALIZATION” font – dafont.com

Author’s (Max_Afterburner) personal photographs & astronaut autographs

Sound effects: Freesound. Org. All clips used are Creative Commons (CC0) and do not require attribution.

This video was originally published on the internet on June 27, 2018.

This newer version has been tweaked from the original:
Overall audio tone improved, multiple headset mic clicks removed; additions of the Apollo 1 crew picture, astronaut McDivitt portrait, astronaut Cernan portrait, and addition of text mentioning U.S. return to a manned program via the SpaceX crew module.
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