ARS Rocket Motor No. 4
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This motor was used in the flight of ARS #4 on Staten Island on September 9, 1934. It burned liquid oxygen and gasoline. That flight was the American Rocket Society’s most successful. The rocket reached a height of 382 feet, a distance of 1,585 feet, and a velocity approaching the speed of sound.
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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Accession Number:
A19660656000
Photo Number:
NASM 2011-00653
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Date:
2011
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Artifact
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