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ARS
The ARS-2 was an improvement by the American Interplanetary Society of the German Mirak design. It used liquid oxygen and gasoline propellants, and was successfully launched on 14 May 1933. Successive rockets refined the design.

AKA: Mirak. Status: Cancelled 1933.

The American Interplanetary Society, later the American Rocket Society (ARS), was founded in New York City in April 1930 by David Lasser, G. Edward Pendray, Fletcher Pratt, and nine others, for the "promotion of interest in and experimentation toward interplanetary expeditions and travel.". The ARS launched a series of small experimental rockets in the 1930's.

They first attempted to copy the VfR Mirak rocket, based on the demonstration they saw in Berlin in 1931. This ARS-1 was destroyed in ground tests. The ARS-2 used liquid oxygen and gasoline propellants, and was successfully launched on 14 May 1933. However the rocket veered after takeoff, reaching only 75 m altitude.



Family: Early Rocketry. Country: USA. Agency: American Rocket Society. Bibliography: 17.

1930 April 4 - . Launch Vehicle: ARS.
1932 November 12 - . Launch Vehicle: ARS.
1933 May 14 - . Launch Vehicle: ARS.
1934 April 6 - . Launch Vehicle: ARS.
1934 September 9 - . Launch Vehicle: ARS.
1936 February 23 - . Launch Vehicle: ARS.
1937 May 9 - . Launch Vehicle: ARS.

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