Rocket, Flying Model Kit, Astron Space Plane

This is an unassembled Astron Space Plane flying rocket model built by Estes Industries. The kit was one of the first two off the production line. The model has a pasteboard body, balsa nose 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 the 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.