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NERVA Nuclear Rocket Engine Contractor's Model. ...
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NERVA Nuclear Rocket Engine Contractor's Model. A magnificent metal model, 10.5" tall on a 5" wooden base of the Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application. The project was a cooperative effort between NASA and the Atomic Energy Commission to develop a nuclear thermal propulsion rocket that would be viable for space exploration, particularly a manned journey to Mars. Developed by the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories, Westinghouse, Aerojet, and others. Despite backing by von Braun and others for a Mars mission using Nerva, it lost out in the space funding cuts of the 1970s. Interesting to wonder what might have been. Extremely rare, only a handful of these were ever made. Light age-related wear, missing original nameplate. Overall fine.Auction Info
2025 December 11 - 12 Space Exploration Signature® Auction #6326 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
December, 2025
11th-12th
Thursday-Friday
Bids + Registered Phone Bidders: 8
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