"Galileo" Atomic-Powered Moon Rocket

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The years following WWII saw an explosion in popular science fiction.  From movies like "Destination Moon" and "Rocketship XM" to the early novels of Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury,  imaginations worldwide were propelled into the cosmos upon wings fired by both hard science and pure imagination.

As early as 1947, science-fiction authors were imagining flights into space in rockets powered by the then-nascent power of atomic energy.  The "Galileo" was one such craft, a former single-stage sub-orbital cargo shuttle saved from the scrapyard by private interests to be fitted with an atomic engine for mankind's first manned flight to the Moon!

This winged ogive design is typical of pop-culture spacecraft designs of the period.  Although the German V-2s of WWII launched vertically, the "Galileo's" horizontal profile echoes the airplane-like spacecraft designs popular a decade earlier.

• Scale: 1:144
• Material: Resin (Solid Cast)
• Number of Pieces: 9 (Including landing skids)
• Display Stand: Optional
• Decals Included
• Master by Scott Lowther
• Casting by Controlled Energy Designs
• Model can be build with either a chemical rocket or atomic engine exhaust