Object Details
- Manufacturer
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
- Summary
- This is a conceptual model of the Saturn V rocket with a RIFT (reactor-in-flight-test) payload. RIFT was part of the joint National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Atomic Energy Commission NERVA (nuclear engine for rocket vehicle application) program. Although the Saturn V was built primarily for launching astronauts to the moon, it was to be used also in the NERVA program to launch various payloads. The NERVA program was cancelled in the mid-1960s.
- NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center made the model and donated it to the Museum in 1974.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Inventory Number
- A19940098000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MODELS-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- Rocket is plastic and base is wood with a metal citation plate. Wood storage box.
- Dimensions
- Other (Model): 47 1/2 × 8 1/4 in. (120.7 × 21cm)
- Other (storage box): 32 1/2 × 9 1/4 × 17 1/2 in. (82.6 × 23.5 × 44.5cm)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19940098000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv964b6be52-eb3f-4c75-a106-e52bf7eef587
