Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Unknown
- Summary
- This is a retail kit of an unassembled Cosmos single stage flying rocket model, made by an unknown Yugoslav manufacturer. The body and fins are pasteboard and the nosecone and parachute are plastic. The kit contains the motor. At the end of powered flight, the parachute deploys and the model returns to Earth, enabling its reuse.
- G. Harry Stine, a pioneer in the field of flying rocket models, donated this artifact to the museum in 1973.
- Credit Line
- Gift of G. Harry Stine
- Inventory Number
- A19930642000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MODELS-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- Plastic, Cardboard, Paper, Sandpaper, Synthetic Fabric, Adhesive, Rubber, Ceramic
- Model has pasteboard body and fins, plastic nosecone, and a plastic parachute w/string shrouds. Motor is pasteboard. Paper assembly instructions inside a cardboard retail box (instructions were not present at the time of the 2011 CCPF Survey).
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 17.5 × 7 × 2.1cm (6 7/8 × 2 3/4 × 13/16 in.)
- Country of Origin
- Yugoslavia
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19930642000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9e810240f-0546-41d8-9de4-eba3f4068f37
