This is a model of unknown scale of the LARS-003 rocket. In the 1970s, Colspan Environmental Systems received a U.S. patent on a cloud seeding system using this rocket. It is not clear whether the system ever saw operational use.
Colspan Environmental Systems built and donated this model to the Museum in 1972.
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
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