Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Model Products Corporation
- Summary
- This is an unassembled ASP-1 flying rocket model built by Model Products. It is based on the U.S. Navy's sounding rocket of the same name originally developed in the late 1950s. The model has a pasteboard body, balsa nosecone and fins, 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. Not included in this kit are the motor, the launch controller that is used to ignite the motor, and the launch pad from which the model is launched. This model was donated by G. Harry Stine, one of the American pioneers in the hobby of flying models.
- Credit Line
- Gift of G. Harry Stine
- Inventory Number
- A19930717000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MODELS-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- Plastic
- Paper
- Wood
- Cardboard
- Cotton
- Steel
- Adhesive
- Lead
- Model has pasteboard body, balsa nose and fins, and plastic parachute with string shrouds. Retail box is cardboard and plastic with paper assembly instructions.
- Dimensions
- Other (retail box): 16 3/4 × 5 1/4 × 1 in. (42.5 × 13.3 × 2.5cm)
- 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_A19930717000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9cf2e98a3-831f-4b78-ab95-ff7fe730c7a7
