Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Model Missiles, Inc.
- Summary
- This is a pre-production version of an Aerobee-Hi flying rocket model built by Model Missiles in 1957. It is based on a sounding rocket of the same name used by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the 1950s. The model has a pasteboard body, balsa fins and 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 in 1973 by G. Harry Stine, one of the American pioneers in the field of flying rocket and missile models.
- Credit Line
- Gift of G. Harry Stine
- Inventory Number
- A19930818000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MODELS-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- Wood, Cardboard, Paint, Cotton, Rubber, Steel, Plastic, Adhesive
- Dimensions
- Other: 1 x 14in. (2.5 x 35.6cm)
- 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_A19930818000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv984121723-4322-4a93-8263-2ec2579d89f0
