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Rocket, CoMa, Italy, 1950's

This is the golden version of this toy (I have the silver one somewhere bagged with the slingshot and the astronaut that goes inside). Soft plastic.

Space ? All rainbow in color !

Rocket (Kaleidoscope) keyhanger

Germany ? 1960 ?

 

Sharpening pencils in space ? Then you need one of those !

and spacey design...

8 cm.

Rocket (pencil sharpener), 1950's ?
Japan ? Germany ?

So, don't want to pay royalties ?

Space Rocket Solar X - Nomura, japan, 1968

Well, of course it's Thunderbird one... with a lucky seven... and another paintjob, and different ailerons.

Are we good ? 

Don't force it !

rubber thingy protecting the lightcone when boxed

box

Aerogiocattoli - now I need to find a slingshot !

Aerogiocattoli Missile Atlas, Italy, 1960's

You aim

You launch 

it opens up...

and a little capsule with a parachute comes down...

How simple toy design can be, really !

The Belgian conquest of space

Fusée Tintin 30cm, 2017, Ed. Moulinsart

Wooden rocket ?

1960 CAA "rocket"

wood w/metal fins

No idea where this thing came from - (found at the flea market) - seller said it might be linked to Angola ? If so not so much a rocket then some type of artillery shell ?

All I know is these would make excellent futuristic bowling pins !

JR 21 X-60 Space Rocket

Another one from my favorite line of space toys. This rocket transporter goes with the X-30, X-40 and X-50 of the same series (see here).

Unique design, cool mechanisms... what could a kid need more to go on a space mission?

X-60 Space Rocketm JR21 Toy, Hong Kong

Ready for launch ? 

Box Front

Box top

Box bottom

Box back

A front in style with a B-52 bomber cockpit / canopy ?

Little Atlas

Atlas rocket, Masuya, Japan, 1950's

Little big surprise from my parents !

Space Commander Ship X-15, Yoshiya, Japan, 1963-1965

Um grand merci !

German spaceship with an American flair...

Rakete 268, Technofix, US Zone Germany

Sputnik 1 - "ping" "ping" "ping"

Sputnik 1, little satellite on sphere memorabilia, USSR, 1957-60-70 ?

It all really had to start somewhere, and for the space race, 4 October 1957 is it.

With 83kg / 58cm in diameter and 4 external radio antenas, this little metal ball spent 3 months in orbit before reentering earth's atmosphere and burning up in the process.

Going on a trip ?

Vintage postcard reproduction, Froydind, Belgium,
2010 

I just love the space-suit for the dog ! check www.froydind.be.

Pink Rocket with Astronaut

Another strange toy. Made out of blown plastic, this beach - pull - toy seems like a knock-off of the tin Masaduya Space Rocket produced in Japan (and later copied in China) - see Alphadrome Database. Even the numbering is the same...

I would guess this came later and from Hong Kong (HK was the place for plastic sci-fi in the 70ies)

Rocket (pull-toy), ?, presumably HK, 1970's

First man in space...

Yuri Gagarin's Vostok spacecraft, ?,
Russia, 1961

12 of April 1961 marks the start of manned flights into space, when Gagarin completed one orbit in his Vostok spacecraft. He would soon become the symbol of Soviet propaganda and courage. Science fiction, from that day on, would be much more science and much less imaginative, especially in spacecraft design...