Neil

Neil is a model space shuttle and a main character in The Space Place. He is depicted as being in his thirties and coming from the United States of America.

Personality
Neil is straightforward, sensible and reliable. However, as shown in When The Lights Went Out, he does have a fearful side.

Appearance
Neil is a model space shuttle with the face of an African American man and a white space helmet. He is based on one of the real six NASA Space Shuttles and shares its primarilly white livery with a black underbelly and front-facing sections of the wings in grey. There is a small yellow rectangle with a white number ‘8’ in it near his front. Like all other Space Team members that would fly if they were real vehicles, he hangs from a wire attached to a green, white, silver and gold drive mechanism that connects him to a network of poles connected to the ceiling for models like him to run along.

Trivia

 * He was most likely named after American astronaut Neil Armstrong.