Air Force Discoverer

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $14.95

Stock #:1022011
Type: Postcard
Era: Chrome
Publisher: Columbia Wholesale Supply
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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The Air Force Discoverer is shown as workmen make final adjustments on a high lift cherry picker - a small type of truck devised especially for missile support activities. This is the same type of equipment used by the astronaut technicians in checking the Mercury capsule just prior to launch. The trucks in the foreground are used to store liquid oxygen. When liquid oxygen is mixed with rocket propellant or kerosene and ignited, it gives the Thor booster 165,000 pounds of thrust.

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