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Sixty Years
Since the 1958 Chicago Hobby Show the rocket inside this crate has laid unseen and untouched. After its 60 year slumber, deep in the bowels of The Museum of Flight the crate's hinges will once again creak open. Stay tuned February 1st.
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WOW!!
When that one gets uncrated and dusted off, it definitely needs to go on display! Who would have had any idea that still existed? And I wonder what the reason was for the "vent" holes in the crate. Maybe just to save weight in hauling it around? Only G. Harry... |
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So that Aerobee can breathe! It may be windows so people can see what's inside....advertisement!
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Be careful picking that up....one of the hasps is missing and the lid might just pop open and spill the contents
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Wow! That must be like opening King Tut's tomb!
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Yer killing me, Pat! Twitter and imgur are blocked at work (thankfully YORF isn't ) so all day your posts sit there and I have to wonder what you guys are talking about. Could you please upload your photos to the forum so they are visible? This is a neat thread, I just don't get to enjoy it fully until I get home...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NwP3wes4M8
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Sixty Years
Sixty years ago today Explorer 1, the first US satellite. was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida (now known as Canaveral Air Force Station adjacent to KSC). This a model of the Jupiter C launch vehicle converted to flight from the 1/48 scale Hawk plastic model kit by G. Harry Stine in the 1960's.
Meanwhile over at the venue for the Chicago hobby show Harry Stine, Dick Keller, and Mel Johnson were very busy readying the Model Missiles Inc exhibit that would open the next day.
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60 Years Explorer 1
Here is a good YouTube video of newsreel coverage of the Explorer 1 launch.
Explorer 1: First US Satellite Here is a link to a live "A Celebration of the Explorer I Mission and the Discovery of Earth's Radiation Belts" hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. http://sites.nationalacademies.org/SSB/SSB_184089
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Sixty Years
Sixty years ago in the late evening of January 31st America entered the Space Race with the launch of the country's first Earth satellite Explorer 1 atop a Jupiter C rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. A few short hours later on February 1st the doors to the 1958 Chicago Hobby Show opened and a brand new company named Model Missiles Inc. suddenly found itself the surprise hit of the show. The Model Missiles booth, with its Space Age decor and a large orange scale model of an AerobeeHi sounding rocket, was soon overrun with hobby industry executives anxious to learn about this rocketry phenomenon. In recognition of this event we descended into the Archive’s basement vault to unlock a dusty treasure unseen by the public for 60 years—the very same orange AerobeeHi model that helped Model Missiles Inc. launch a model rocketry craze that has grown into the global hobby of today.
In this image Dick Keller (left) and G. Harry Stine (right) man the MMI booth. A large orange rocket can be seen peeking over Keller's shoulder. That is an Aerobee Hi model which has not been seen for sixty years. We change that today.
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