Hello All,

If anyone here has built a Juno II scale model, this Sunday--March 3--would be a particularly appropriate occasion on which to launch it. (Peter Alway included plans for a Juno II scale model in his now-online 1994 book, "The Art of Scale Model Rocketry," see pages 62 and 63 *here*: http://nar.org/free-reports/Art%20o...r%2 0Alway.pdf , and his "Rockets of the World" contains scale data on several Juno II rounds, including the Pioneer 4 one.) This Sunday doesn't mark the date of the first Juno II launch, but it *does* mark the 60th anniversary of the most historic one--the launch of the Pioneer IV lunar probe, the first U.S. spacecraft to escape from Earth and achieve solar orbit. Below are links to material on Pioneer 4 and its Juno II launch vehicle (which includes a downloadable card stock Pioneer 4 model):

Wikipedia article (containing additional links): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_4

YouTube videos: http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ioneer+4+launch

Pioneer 4 paper models: http://www.google.com/search?ei=T5B...299.fQ6mYIJ1h6c

Articles, images, and videos: http://www.google.com/search?source... 9.nagIzxkLZqM

I hope this material will be useful.

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