Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Galactic Enterprises
- Summary
- This is a flying Arcon rocket model built by Galactic Enterprises in the late 1950s or 1960s. It is not known whether it was flown. The model has a pasteboard body, balsa fins, rubber nose, and a plastic parachute. A solid propellant rocket motor propels the model, and then at the end of the vertical flight it forces the release of a parachute. The model is then retrieved and can be used again. The model is launched from a launch pad, with a hand-held launch controller being used to ignite the motor. The model was donated by G. Harry Stine, one of the American pioneers in the field of flying rocket and missile models, in 1973.
- Credit Line
- Gift of G. Harry Stine
- Inventory Number
- A19930819000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MODELS-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- Cardboard, Vinyl, Paint, Plastic, Balsa Wood, Rubber, Synthetic Fabric, Paper, Adhesive
- Dimensions
- Other: 2 5/8 in. in diameter at the fins x 18 1/8 in. long (6.35 x 45.7cm)
- 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_A19930819000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv961d839b3-1f82-4c93-bea3-9d7fe211b465
