"Michael R. Grabois ... change $ to \"s\""
wrote:

http://www.geocities.com/wizardimps/smithsonian3.jpg
A rocket of some sort, sitting on the Mall. I don't know enough to even guess
at what this one is.

The rocket is actually in image
http://www.geocities.com/wizardimps/smithsonian1.jpg, and is an early
Atlas with the heat sink RV as opposed to the later
sphere-cone-cylinder-flare RV.

D.
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