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The Oldsmobile Golden Rocket was a two-seater [5] show car built by Oldsmobile for the 1956 General Motors Motorama.The radically styled fiberglass concept, designed to resemble a rocket on wheels, was revised several times and displayed at various other auto shows, [6] most notably at the 1957 Paris Motor Show where it generated much fanfare, 18 months after it was first revealed. [2]
Tailfins gave a Space Age look to cars, and along with extensive use of chrome became commonplace by the end of the decade. 1950s American automobile culture has had an enduring influence on the culture of the United States, as reflected in popular music, major trends from the 1950s and mainstream acceptance of the "hot rod" culture. The American manufacturing economy switched from producing ...
It is the first production car launched into space. The car, mounted on the rocket's second stage, was launched on an escape trajectory and entered an elliptical heliocentric orbit crossing the orbit of Mars. [6] The orbit reaches a maximum distance from the Sun at aphelion of 1.66 astronomical units (au). [4]
The Buick is considered one of the less egregious-looking cars of the 1950s, but for some reason, that didn’t apply to the 1954 model year. The Century, Roadmaster, Special, and Super models ...
The "Wander Stand" is a four-wheeled vehicle with mostly vertical space that lets you stand in it while you drive around. Think of a very futuristic looking golf car on steroids.
NASA's goal with this new space capsule is to carry humans to Mars. The Orion spacecraft is due to be completed in the early 2020s. NASA is hoping that this mission will "usher in a new era of space exploration." [32] Another major factor affecting the current Space Age is the privatization of space flight. [34]
This is a chronological index for the start year for motor vehicle brands (up to 1969). For manufacturers that went on to produce many models, it represents the start date of the whole brand; for the others, it usually represents the date of appearance of the main (perhaps only) model that was produced.
The Prius Plug-in Hybrid sells for slightly more, but still comes in more than $7,000 lower than the average car price, with the SE starting at $33,770, the XSE at $37,020 and the XSE Premium at ...