The fourteen year old me holding my freshly recovered Estes Astron Alpha after the launch seen elsewhere on this blog. This particular model was an early-style Alpha, featuring balsa wood fins and nose cone.
As noted in the aforementioned earlier post, this rocket was likely a self-made clone, as evidenced by what seems to be a Centuri parachute. I built a number of Astron Alphas of all incarnations, both from official Estes kits and as self-made replicas. It soon became a tradition to initiate launches with an Alpha, in order to determine wind conditions before switching to larger models.
Photographed by Hans Hofer in northeast Switzerland, in July 1978.
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