Landing on another world required a vehicle not designed for this one, so the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) was born. One of the weirdest and most improbable flying machines ever conceived, its development pushed the technology envelope and resulted in one of the most important and successful engineering achievements in human history. This golden spidery machine was a two-stage vehicle that carried two astronauts from lunar orbit to the lunar surface. The upper half contained the pressurized crew compartment, equipment bays and the ascent rocket engine while the lower half housed the landing gear, descent rocket engine and lunar surface experiments. To many engineers, the final product was an insult to every notion of what spaceship should like. but in the vacuum of space it didn’t need to be aerodynamic.
For most of my life, I've been fueled by a fascination with manned spaceflight, the lunar module being quite an obsession over the years so using blueprints, official photographs and several model kits as reference, I have constructed my own half scale replica of the Eagle Lunar Module Eagle. The basic materials I’ve used refer to the imaginative cardboard spaceships I built in my childhood using toilet rolls, cereal boxes and whatever debris I could get my hands on. The primary reference model used for this project was the 50th anniversary Revel Lunar Module Eagle 1:48 scale kit.
My lander sits with a fragment of a Canberra living room from 1969. Standing in front of the lander, the audience is transmitted onto the TV screen, taking Aldrin and Armstrong’s place in that historic moment in time. The onlooker becomes the human bridge between two worlds.
Lunar Module Eagle (1:2 Scale)
Cardboard, wood, steel, perspex, found objects
3.5 x 3.5 x 3.5m
2019
For most of my life, I've been fueled by a fascination with manned spaceflight, the lunar module being quite an obsession over the years so using blueprints, official photographs and several model kits as reference, I have constructed my own half scale replica of the Eagle Lunar Module Eagle. The basic materials I’ve used refer to the imaginative cardboard spaceships I built in my childhood using toilet rolls, cereal boxes and whatever debris I could get my hands on. The primary reference model used for this project was the 50th anniversary Revel Lunar Module Eagle 1:48 scale kit.
My lander sits with a fragment of a Canberra living room from 1969. Standing in front of the lander, the audience is transmitted onto the TV screen, taking Aldrin and Armstrong’s place in that historic moment in time. The onlooker becomes the human bridge between two worlds.
Lunar Module Eagle (1:2 Scale)
Cardboard, wood, steel, perspex, found objects
3.5 x 3.5 x 3.5m
2019