"The ROCK-A-CHUTE is a working model of a type of guided missile.  It is powered by an expendable, solid fuel rocket motor.  The ROCK-A-CHUTE rises, under its own power, from its launching rampt to a height of from 100 to 500 feet," opens the Bal-Rock MK-1 instructions.

"World's most reliable rocket engine — a record achieved by the Bell Agena Rocket Engine on the U.S. Air Force's DISCOVERER and MIDAS satellite programs," opens this recently located November 1961 edition of the Bell Aerosystems "Rocket Design Data Handbook".

"Some of you have been tempted to make your own rocket propellants and rocket airframes. Those of you who have done so and who are still with us and who still have all your fingers, eyes, hair, and head are luckier than you are scientific," opens "The Model Rocketeer" article.

The late 50's find youngsters all across the nation looking up to the sky, first to see satellites, then to see their rockets streak across the sky.  This article from the September 1958 issue of Popular Mechanics covers the activities of the Reaction Research Society and the hobby of amateur rocketry.

"Children's toys reflect the age in which they.  Not too many years ago youngsters built model airplanes to emulate the daring men that flew in the skies overhead. Today we are in the age of missiles, and man is reaching into space with fiery projectiles," opens the "Space-Age Toy" article.