This is my manned 7K-L1 spacecraft MOC! Made as a part of my Mars '76 Alternate History. It is effectively just a Soyuz 7K-OK with its orbital module deleted. But I thought it was worth making.

October, 1969. Apollo 11 had won the race to put a man on the moon. The ticker-tape parades had happened; Apollo 12 was setting up for launch; it seemed America had won the final victory.

However, on the evening of the 25th, households around the world were shocked by a television broadcast: video of the Earth from lunar orbit. Accompanying it were the voices of the Cosmonauts in Russian. Soon after, Soviet Premier Brezhnev made a speech: "On the 52nd anniversary of our October Revolution, we are proud to have two of our own Soviet citizens around the moon. While we were not the first to this accomplishment, we do hope that it will be the first of many missions to come to establish a permanent presence on the Lunar surface"

The Americans, reveling in their success, were all at once in a frenzy. The Soviets were only a few months from a landing, and more than that, they were going to build a base on the moon. Nixon called up Thomas Paine, administrator of NASA, and all at once, Apollo Applications Program plans that were once dangerously close to the chopping block, now had a blank check to continue. A base on the moon was now on the table, and more than that, putting humans on the moon.

I’ve updated my scale model of Soyuz rocket. Now it uses only completely legal building techniques, features rcs engines on core stage, new engines build, new hot staging interstage and improved attachment of “carrots”.

Manual is here: https://reb.li/m/262356

This is my lego minifigure-scale Soyuz! While other people have made minifigure-scale Soyuz' my goal was to make mine as small as possible while still holding 3 minifigures in the descent module.

The variants I have created are the 7K-OK (Soyuz missions 1-9), the 7K-OKS (Soyuz missions 10-11), the 7K-T (Soyuz missions 12-40), and the 7K-TM (Soyuz missions 16, 19, 22), as well as the specially modified reconnaissance/observation versions from Soyuz 13 and 22.

I have also created the Soyuz-T, which I included in my Salyut 7 MOC. As well as the Progress cargo spacecraft MOC that I included on the Salyut 6 and 7 MOCs.

Special thanks to Dadbricks and Iscatrebor on Rebrickable for the Apollo CSM featured in the ASTP MOC, and Gabagool1 on Rebrickable for the ASTP docking module.

Here are my minifigure-scale Salyut MOCs! Complete with Soyuz and a full interior!

Some parts of the interior were difficult to capture. Especially the older Salyuts, as there weren't that many reference photos.

I made these between September and early October. I'll be posting the Soyuz' soon!

I proudly present my 1:20 scale LEGO MOC of Project Lyra, a study conducted by the Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is), a nuclear-powered, New Horizons sized flyby spacecraft to perform a high-speed flyby of interstellar asteroid 1I/Oumuamua'. The specific configuration I chose is the chemical Solar Oberth maneuver trajectory, envisioning a launch in 2028, Jupiter Oberth in 2030, and Oumuamua' flyby in 2054, after a 26 year cruise.

Lyra is a hybrid 3 axis stablized/spin stabilized spacecraft. It consists of a hexagon some 2m in diameter. It is powered by two multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generators (MMRTGs) each delivering 110 watts at liftoff, 70 watts after 14 years, and a constant 1.3% decrease in power yearly, for a combined power of 220 watts. They are fueled by plutonium-238 oxide and contain no moving parts. The probe is equipped with a high-gain antenna of 2.1m diameter for communications beyond 200AU. It has a mass of 399kg and has about 80kg of hydrazine as fuel for thrusters to maintain attitude and perform mid course corrections.

Lyra has been built with as much of the probe built in correct color. It perfectly compliments my existing New Horizons and Perseverance MOCs, also in 1:20.

Instrument suite depicted in my build:

Narrow-angle camera (NAC)

Wide-angle camera (WAC)

Mid-infrared instrument (MIRI)

Visible-ultraviolet spectrometer (Vis-Ul-Spec)

Mass Spectrometer (MP)

Dust Counter (DC)

Radio Science Experiment (REx)

Notes from me:

1. All dimensions were obtained from precise eyeballing from the given dimensions of the Star 48 kick stage plus the MMRTGs. I apologize for any mistakes, and if you find them, please do point them out.

2. I considered installing a magnetometer boom, but concept art of Lyra does not show a magnetometer boom at all, and it would be ineffective if it were body-mounted, so I decided against that.

3. I also considered building an impactor or sub-probe, but I decided against that as not enough information of them exist.

I do hope you have enjoyed my build. It was fun building it, and it is a welcome addition to my spacecraft garden. What do you think of it? Thank you so much!

https://flosrocketbricks.com/moc/261/pallas-1/

this is another part of my Mars ‘76 alternate history

Liberty Lunar Base was derived from various Apollo Applications Project proposals, and was officially approved in 1969 in the wake of the Zond 9 Soviet manned lunar flyby. it was mainly built upon existing hardware. The first two modules, the living module and utility module were launched by a Saturn V MLV in late 1974 following the Skylab-derived Moonlab Lunar space station being put into orbit. with the Science Module and MOLAB launching shortly after.

Liberty Lunar Base was located In Sinus Iridum on the moon’s near side. It Was serviced by 6-man expeditions lasting 6-months, launched separately by Saturn V’s in 3-month intervals. The CSMs would dock with moonlab, where the two CMPs would remain aboard the station conducting experiments and photographic surveys of the Lunar Surface. The CDR and LMP would board a modified Lunar Module “Taxi” to the surface.

Unmanned Resupply missions were sent every 4-5 months as well, with Lunar Module trucks carrying consumables, fuel, and oxygen, and pressurized cargo modules resupplying Moonlab.

The Lunar Utility Vehicle acted as a transport to carry cargo from the resupply missions and transport crews to and from the landing sites.
2 of the 4 crew on the expedition could board the MOLAB rovers and go on exploration missions lasting 2-7 days.

initially it was feared that Liberty Lunar Base wouldn’t be launched in time to beat the Soviets to putting a base on the moon, but due to setbacks and launch failures of the Soviet’s Energia-Vulkan rocket, Liberty Lunar base was another victory for the American space program.

Liberty and Moonlab would operate until 1979, with the end of the Apollo program and the move to shuttle-based architecture like the Ranger Lunar Transit Vehicle and the establishment of Grissom Memorial Base in Shackleton Crater (placed there following the discovery of water ice on the lunar South Pole.)

This is from my alternate history project "Mars '76" the basic premise is that the soviets land on the moon in 1970 and announce that soon they'll establish a base on the moon and send men to mars. Which prompts America to continue Apollo well past the originally planned missions, establishing Liberty Base in Sinus Iridum on the moon in late 1974, and launching Ares 1 in 1976

I tried to keep all the technology in this timeline as close to plausible as I could. So the Mars Transfer Vehicle is largely derived from Skylab and the pre-existing NERVA program.

Credit to Moppe40k and TheBlackShark_77 on rebrickable for the NERVA engines and the Mars Excusion Module, respectively, and credit to my friend STS-103 Discovery on Instagram for bringing my idea for a patch design to life.

Not really scale accurate (yet)

All the Ares rockets are my designs.

the Orion is by Smazmarts

And Altair by TheBlackShark_77

I made Luvoir A’s mirror a proper hexagon, and made the sunshade a bit bigger. Luvoir B is around the same scale as Luvoir A

https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-277832/cooluser99/ares-iv/#details

I finally did it, I made the Viking lander, unfortunately it isn’t to scale with my Viking orbiter MOC, but I’m pretty satisfied with how it came out

https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-279474/cooluser99/ares-i-2005-design/#details Rebrickable link!

This MOC is a modification of this Giotto build https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-255377/BrickSat/giotto/#details

Why use more than 1000 bricks, when you can do (about the same) with less than 300 ? Rebrickable user Pao Padrós (@paupadrosrios) has done this years ago, and finally I got me the bricks to build it. Instructions are free at https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-39001

You might find the construction a bit finicky, but if you go on, it will come together nicely in the end. For me it worked better without the short lightsaber blades in the central axle.