Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Centuri Engineering
- Summary
- This is an assembled flying Nike-Smoke rocket model of 1:10 scale, produced by Centuri Engineering. The model has a pasteboard body and fins, and a plastic parachute. A solid propellant rocket motor propels the model; the parachute is deployed at the end of the vertical flight. The model can be retrieved and used again. The Nike-Smoke, used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to launch payloads for upper atmosphere research, employed the first stage of the U.S. Army's Nike surface-to-air missile.
- This model was donated to the Museum in 1970 by the manufacturer, one of the largest American makers of flying models.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Centuri Engineering
- Inventory Number
- A19700395000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MODELS-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- Cardboard body, plastic nose cone
- Dimensions
- 23 in. long x 1 3/4 in. long (58.42 x 4.45cm)
- 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_A19700395000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv94350172e-110c-4dfd-a27a-a46496c97cbd
