Originally Posted by HenryMac

Here's a Scratch Built / Scratch Designed Mars Lander.

The body is turned from solid pine, and it's powered by a 29mm rear eject spool.

It has a dual parachute arrangement, one is for the spool / motor, and one is a drogue chute for the lander itself, bringing it back to earth, legs down.

This design has (3) legs, instead of (4).

I turned the body from a scrap 4x4 today. As I was cutting the nose cone tip & the body broke loose from the headstock and broke into two pieces. So I used Gorilla Wood Glue on the halves and clamped them together. I'll wait a few days, then chuck it back up in the lathe and finish turn the nose.