Model, Rocket, Nike Smoke, 1:10

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.