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pencil rocket and baby rocket

Material No :

V100000023

Material type :

Edited image

Shooting date:

1955/03/31

Category :

Space Transportation Systems > Small Rockets > Pencil Rocket
Field Centers > Sagamihara Campus
General > History

Contents :

In April 12, 1955, a tiny rocket Pencil was horizontally test-launched at Kokubunji in the suburbs of Tokyo. This was Japan's first step toward its space efforts of today. The Pencil group was led by Prof. Hideo Itokawa, University of Tokyo, the so-called Father of Japanese Rocketry.

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