Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Capital Rockets, Inc.
- Summary
- This is a developmental version of the Parabee-1 flying rocket model built by Capital Rockets in 1957. 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
- A19930813000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MODELS-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- Wood, Cardboard, Paint, Plastic, Paper, Rubber, Synthetic Fabric, Cotton, Brass, Steel
- Dimensions
- Other: 1ft 1 7/8in. x 2 7/8in. (35.24 x 7.3cm)
- 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_A19930813000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9e4adfc2e-05c0-4418-87a4-1b0dfa88c8bc
