From Star Trek. A DY-100 class vessel, the SS Mayflower. A joint effort of NASA, JPL, and Microsoft. The latter company being responsible for the guidance system computers.
Modeling is complete but needs some additional texturing in a few places and re-texturing on the nose cone.
Was the Mayflower used in a Book or Show? I am somewhat up on all the shows, but not the books. Jus wonderin
I used to read the books back when TOS era stories we're available. And still have a box full of them in the attic but the only mention of a DY-100 was during a Time Travel storie with Kirk, Kelso, and Gary Mitchell. Anyway to answer your question: Not to my knowledge, just seemed like a good name for an early space ship sent out to colonize another world. Although I'm not sure you can prove it but I actually stole the name from somewhere... just can't seem to remember where.
Another gorgeous rendering. I've always liked this design. The DY-100 class was a simple but very pleasant design, and actually very believable as a design of a ship built and launched in the late 1900's/early 2000's. Is there a decent kit of this ship in a reasonable scale (1/1000 or larger)? I'd love to build one, but my scratchbuilding skills (at least for ships) is very limited.