Irregular shape; cylinder at bottom, with larger cylinder attached on top, then tapering toward conical top; attached to top is frame of two parallel pipes serving as the rocket's propellant pipes, in long U-shaped arrangement, with one pipe end, or bottom of U-shape, leading into one side of the conical top, and other pipe end on opposite side, or opposite bottom of U-shape, leading into other side of conical top; straight, short horizontal pipe on top of U, serving as a brace between both vertical pipes; smaller cylinder, serving as the actual motor, intersecting middle of brace and secured to it; this cylinder, with long nozzle at rear, further attached to this part of rocket, by two opposing slightly angular extensions of propellant pipes on each side, and joined at end, or front of rocket proper, by being attached to front of upper, motor cylinder.
Created by
2015 NASM Mass Digitization Production Project (Ortery system)
Date Created
12/09/2015
Source
National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Keywords
Engineers; Models; Rockets; Space
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