ABOUT THIS SITE

My logo represents modeling the Space Shuttle from paper. The three colors yellow, blue and red in the oval represent the colors of Ecuador's flag, my birthplace. The three stars on the left represent my brothers and I. The Space Shuttle is depicted in flight after trailing the sequence of paper modeling, and the white, red and blue stars represent all past, present and future Space Shuttle missions from mother Earth.

I am Alfonso X. Moreno, an avid fan of the space program, born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, but raised in New York during my childhood. I still remember watching the Apollo missions in the early 70s and even wearing an astronaut costume for Halloween.

I now live in Florida's "Treasure Coast" in Port Saint Lucie.

July 31, 2000 Photo taken during a meeting in Colorado Springs.

Jan 27, 2007 Here I am with my kids (future astronauts) in Disney World.

Copiague, LINY (1971)

During my teens I started building models as a hobby. First, I built 1:200 scale paper models of real American launchers. My collection consisted of the Mercury Redstone, Gemini Titan, Saturn IB, Saturn V, a 1:200 Lunar Module, a Space Shuttle, Buran Shuttle, and a Soyuz booster. Later I built large lifesize scale models made from different materials, like R2D2 from Star Wars, Darth Vader, Alien, ET, Space Shuttle Columbia and finally the soviet shuttle Buran. The photos below show some of my large sized models being burned during New Year's Eve celebration in Ecuador. As a tradition in Ecuador, a "dummy" stuffed manequin is burned during New Year's Eve, the dummy representing the Old Year. But I preferred building a replica of anything that was remarkable every year. I remember people saying "You have to be crazy burning all your work!" They were right. What it took me a month of work, it was gone in minutes!

I have to admit that my large sized models were inaccurate in details. At that time I did not have the resources I have now.

The photo below is a 1:200 paper model of my MIR Space Station in its final configuration. Click each photo to enlarge.

 

These are some of my old 1:200 prototype papermodels: Apollo Lunar Module ( in my hand ), Gemini Titan, Soyuz booster (unfinished), Mercury Redstone and a closeup of a Soyuz capsule without its shroud.

 

 

The main reason why I made this site was due to not being able to find references for Shuttle payloads on the web. I could not find a site that showed all Shuttle payloads, so I started planning my own site with such material. I started researching NASA photos to get payload details in order to design my future Shuttle payloads.

This site is more than building a simple cardmodel of the Space Shuttle. It goes beyond. You can download files to build a replica of any Space Shuttle mission. You'll have the details of the Orbiter markings and the corresponding changes to the External tank and Solid rocket boosters for any mission. You can also build the hardware that transports the Shuttle to the launch pad, the Crawler and the Mobile Launch Platform. Every Shuttle payload differs from mission to mission, so at this site you will have the opportunity to build the payloads from all the missions including the International Space Station by collecting the individual modules from these payloads. Collect all Shuttle payloads and display them proudly.

Being a father of two, my job and spending hours at night for this project is not easy. Shuttle Payloads will vary in number each month. The Shuttle with External Tank stack configuration models will be available for FREE. The payload files are available via Paypal. Check this site often!

Hope you'll enjoy building my Shuttle and payloads paper models, the way I enjoy designing them for you!

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From Port Saint Lucie to the world!!

 

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