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Object Name: Rocket Test Stand No. 2, American Rocket Society (ARS)
Smithsonian Record ID: edanmdm:nasm_A19680021000

	Object Name
	Rocket Test Stand No. 2, American Rocket Society (ARS)

	Metadata Usage
	CC0

	Guid
	http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9d85872f0-9c79-4f8e-8a09-fc20c786dd17

	Data Source
	National Air and Space Museum

	Manufacturer
	American Rocket Society

	Materials
	Steel frame and steel overall; two brass or copper fuel and oxidizer tanks and feed lines in back; aluminum dial pointers and other parts; glass faces on dials and two glass tubes on linear scale

	Dimensions
	3-D: 109.2 × 61 × 135.9cm, 136.1kg (3 ft. 7 in. × 2 ft. × 4 ft. 5 1/2 in., 300lb.)

	Summary
	This is American Rocket Society (ARS) Test Stand Stand No. 2 used in ground tests of experimental rocket motors. Built in 1938, it had a thrust capacity of 200 pounds.

	Summary
	The stand notably proved the effectiveness of James H. Wyld's regeneratively-cooled motor in tests from 1938 to 1941. This led Wyld and three other ARS members to form Reaction Motors, Inc. (RMI) in 1941, America's first commercial liquid-fuel rocket company which later built the 6000-pound thrust rocket engine for the Bell X-1 research rocket aircraft that broke the sound barrier in October 1947.

	Summary
	The stand was last used in 1942 when loaned to RM. It then was loaned in 1953 to the ARS. It was donated to the Smithsonian in 1967 by the Reaction Motors Division, Thiokol Chemical Corp.

	Country of Origin
	United States of America

	Credit Line
	Reaction Motors Division, Thiokol Chemical Corp.

	Inventory Number
	A19680021000

	Date
	1938-1941

	Type
	EQUIPMENT-Test

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