• Side view of yellow rocket with red fins and nose.
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    This torpedo-shaped cruiser with a yellow body and red fins is actually a moving toy. Threading a 12-foot string through the rollers on this Tootsie Toy metal spaceship from 1937 allowed it to "fly" as the ends were raised or lowered.

  • Side view of yellow rocket with red fins and nose.

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Eric Long

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NASM2014-04369

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National Air and Space Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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