Object Details
- Summary
- This is a unbuilt Alpha flying rocket model kit. Included are two body tubes, an oval nosecone, a white and orange parachute with white strings and attached rubber band, a balsa sheet for fins, miscellaneous parts, and instruction sheet included. Once the motors stopped burning the parachute deployed and the model gently returned to Earth for reuse.
- Estes Industries made the model and donated it to the museum in 1996.
- Credit Line
- GIFT OF ESTES INDUSTRIES.
- Inventory Number
- A19960463000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MODELS-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- Cardboard - Pasteboard
- Wood- Balsa
- Plastic
- Paper
- String
- Rubber
- Ink
- Adhesive
- Tape
- Dimensions
- Other (large tube): 3/4 x 7 3/4in. (1.9 x 19.7cm)
- Other (small tube): 3/4 x 2 3/4in. (1.9 x 7cm)
- Storage: 30.5 x 27.9 x 5.1cm (12 x 11 x 2 in.)
- 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_A19960463000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9f0fd2296-4bc9-4d43-a05d-71a3ec0e56a1
