The Aerobee rocket was a small 30-foot-tall unguided suborbital sounding rocket used for high atmospheric and cosmic radiation research in the United States in the 1950s. It was built by Aerojet General. The company began work in 1946 and test fired the first complete Ae...
This is a reissued sample of the classic Monogram “First Lunar Landing” kit that was first released in the late 1960’s. The kit portrays the Eagle, landed on the surface of the moon, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface, setting up experiments. An ...
“January 31, 1958, 10:58 p.m. EST – Cape Canaveral, Pad 26A
Technicians wait nervously as the countdown to launch nears completion, and all hope that this launch goes as planned. The launch of America’s first artificial satellite has been a long time in coming. ...
This kit, another in the Space Ship Series by Aoshima, joins the Apollo Command Module/Lunar Module (No. 1) and the Apollo Saturn Rocket & Lunar Module (No. 2). One strange thing is that nothing in this series is in a consistent scale. Kit No. 1 is in 1:96, and Kit No. ...
This kit was originally released in 1964, when America was involved in the Space Race against the Soviet Union. The review sample is the 1996 reissue of the classic kit. The kit is discontinued, but examples do show up from time to time on eBay.
