Estes kit # 1236, purchased 1985, $46. Beginning stages of construction. Main body tubes ready to be assembled. This kit had alot of parts! Instructions, with 58 steps, and plastic engine nozzles. Paper shrouds, templates and decals. Main body complete but bent do to extended storage in my garage. Body wraps on. Engine shrouds cut to accept fins. Fins attached, fake engine nozzles completed. Rocket getting a coat of white paint. Rocket after black paint. Saturn V Saturn V ready for first flight. First flight AOK. Second flight not so AOK. Second flight of Saturn V was not too good! Engine ejected instead of chute.

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