Estes Antar Model Rocket Green/White

Harry Stine was a visionary who believed that mankind would soon travel to and live in space. He wrote several fiction books in the early 1950’s including best sellers Starship Through Space and Contraband Rocket. Many of the characters in his books were based on real people he met working at White Sands. His stories also needed spaceships that didn’t exist yet so he created them. Athena, Fafnir, Vittoria, Absyritis were all designed with incredible detail by a fictional company Hueco Spacecraft Inc. Harry Stine (NAR#02) is known as the “Father of Model Rocketry�?and founder of the National Association of Rocketry. One of the original pioneers that founded the hobby right alongside Vern Estes, Stine was also a talented writer. This Estes Designer Signature Series kit is a faithful reproduction crafted by Estes designers from many sketches Stine created as well as the actual original model which is from the personal collection of Estes Vice President Bill Stine. Antar was not designed as a flying model rocket because in 1951 the hobby didn’t exist yet! Stine was a physicist and clearly understood the science of flight, so even though Antar was a fictional vehicle, the science behind it meant it could be stable in flight. The Antar stands as one of his first creations, and one of Estes�?finest models. A model to demonstrate the possibilities of spaceflight to a population who had yet to see the first satellites make orbit. Get your own piece of this treasured spaceflight history.