Gingerbread Saturn V rocket

Matt sez, "For Christmas I decided to make a model Saturn V out of gingerbread. This one's 40 inches tall. I'm waiting for my niece and nephew to show up before we paint the flag and 'USA' on the sides."

Gingerbread Saturn V

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dpamac

I hope they plan on eating it from the bottom up. I mean, you have to eat the stages in order.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

Sweet!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=20605159 Matt Baker

Here’s the time lapse video of building the gingerbread rocket.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsMPmVl8hys
- vonbobo
  
  Nice job!
benher

Impressive considering the “greying” of Nasa… soon there will be no engineers left who can even build or operate a gingerbread Saturn V…
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Shawn-Goldwater/806673997 Shawn Goldwater
  
  Yes and I thought the blueprints had been destroyed. Clearly not.
- metacalifragilistic
  
  And so the wicked professors built a gingerbread rocket to lure little Hansel and Gretel into an Aerospace Engineering major.
- xzzy
  
  Don’t worry, Kerbal Space Program is breeding the next generation of rocket engineers.
  
  Well, don’t worry unless you’re an astronaut who expects to survive the trip.
silkox

Excellent engineering choice for the thing to help people escape really fast if there’s a problem and everything is on fire so they decide not to go to space. http://xkcd.com/1133/
Stooge

So who ate the marzipan launch tower?
Zack Jackowski

Hopefully your gingerbread LEM be of much higher quality than ours!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mesaba/sets/72157625595063736/with/5259410803/
- vonbobo
  
  Looks like everyone had fun!
habbi1974

reminds me of tower of Pisa, but I still cannot figure why.
awjt

Fill it up with Karo-sene!