Rocket, Flying Model Kit, Astron Mark

This is an unassembled Astron Mark flying rocket model built by Estes Industries. It has a pasteboard body, balsa nose and fins, a paper streamer, 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 the parachute. The model is then retrieved and can be used again. The model could fly up to altitudes of 1,000 feet. 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.