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Delta II Rocket NASA, "Deep Impact", Launch January 12th, 2005 

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Delta II Rocket NASA, "Deep Impact", Launch January 12th, 2005
Scale:
1:400
Length:
3.5"
Width:
0.5"
Composition:
Diecast
SKU:
DM-DRW56243


Historical Note:

Delta is a versatile family of expendable launch systems that has provided space launch capability in the United States since 1960. There have been more than 300 Delta rockets launched, with a 95 percent success rate. Two Delta launch systems Ì_åÇÌ_åå Delta II and Delta IV Ì_åÇÌ_åå are in active use. Delta rockets are currently manufactured and launched by the United Launch Alliance. The original Delta rockets used a modified version of the PGM-17 Thor, the first ballistic missile deployed by the United States Air Force, as their first stage. The Thor had been designed in the mid-1950s to reach Moscow from bases in Britain or similar allied nations, and the first wholly-successful Thor launch had occurred in September 1957. Subsequent satellite and space probe flights soon followed, using a Thor first stage with several different upper stages. The fourth upper stage used on the Thor was the Thor "Delta," delta being the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. Eventually the entire Thor-Delta launch vehicle came to be called simply, "Delta."


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