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LESSON 4. Basic drawing and editing: Mercury Spacecraft Console Panel Section



  Photo of the Mercury Console Panel. Source: NASA, not copyrighted. Click on picture for a larger view.

The Mercury Program was the beginning of U. S. manned space exploration. SpaceCAD Lessons 4 - 8 are all taken from Mercury technical drawings. To learn more about the history of the Mercury Program click the blue button:

In this lesson you will use these CAD commands:
Text
Rectangle
Circle
Copy

In this lesson, you will add to what you learned in the first 3 lessons. You will be drawing one section of the Mercury space capsule's console. To see a slide show showing the steps in the drawing, click here:

Start out by planning the drawing. Looking at the basic shapes used for the controls on the console section we are drawing, we see we will need to draw circles and rectangles. (To see the original NASA drawing that is the basis for this project, click here: )

Click here to start the lesson.