Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.
Celebrity chef Duff Goldman poses with his latest creation, a cake in the shape of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, and a full scale replica on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida on Nov. 3, 2023.As it turns out, it takes a good deal of planning, patience and, well, Perseverance, to create a cake in the shape of a NASA Mars rover."You really have to do a little bit of engineering here," said Goldman in an interview with collectSPACE.com.
"We wanted to show how the wheels articulate and not just have it on a flat base, because I think one of the most amazing things about the actual rover is that it is crawling all over a terrain that is not manmade, which presents all kinds of challenges," said Goldman."I think being able to show the engineering that went into creating something that can do this millions of miles away from where we built it just makes it that much more interesting.
The cake, which is yellow with chocolate buttercream, took five days to make. It is the second custom creation that Goldman has baked for the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Last year, he made aThat the Perseverance cake is shorter did not make it any less difficult to recreate, said Goldman. "The rover was easier to deliver, but it has a lot more parts. So we had a lot more opportunity to get a lot of details on there. That made it a little more challenging, but also made it a lot more fun," Goldman told collectSPACE.
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