Rocket, Flying Model Kit, Vostok RD-107, 1:100

This is an unassembled Vostok model built by Model Products. The Vostok was a key Soviet launch vehicle. The model could be assembled into a static display model or a flying model. The model has a pasteboard body, plastic nose and fins, and a plastic parachute. If built as a flying model, 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. G. Harry Stine, an American pioneer in the field of flying rocket and missile models, donated it to the Museum.