{"id":4624,"date":"2019-09-17T13:17:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T17:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2019-09-17T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T19:49:04","slug":"new-addition-pewter-mule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2019\/09\/17\/new-addition-pewter-mule\/","title":{"rendered":"New Addition:  Pewter Mule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New on exhibit is the Pewter Mule, a model rocket powered by 24 D12 rocket motors and built by Kirby Hinson, Owen Morris and David Glock in 1979.\u00a0 Conceived as a a simulation of an aborted shuttle launch, the Pewter Mule boosted a 1\/40<sup>th<\/sup> scale Orbiter model to altitude before releasing the Orbiter to fly unpowered back to the launch area.\u00a0 The Pewter Mule was donated by Joyce Morris, in honor of Owen Morris and Kirby Hinson.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4625\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/2019_09_17-ModelsAtWork-PewterMule-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"The Pewter Mule, a large gray rocket with a 24 motor mounts is on exhibit in the Models at Work gallery in the National Model Aviation Museum.\" width=\"740\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/2019_09_17-ModelsAtWork-PewterMule-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/2019_09_17-ModelsAtWork-PewterMule-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/2019_09_17-ModelsAtWork-PewterMule-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/2019_09_17-ModelsAtWork-PewterMule-999x666.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Pewter Mule, visit Johnson Space Center Radio Control Club&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jscrcc.com\/history.html\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for helping to grow the museum&#8217;s collection!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nFor more information on the National Model Aviation Museum, including our location, hours and admission fees visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modelaircraft.org\/museum\">www.modelaircraft.org\/museum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New on exhibit is the Pewter Mule, a model rocket powered by 24 D12 rocket motors and built by Kirby Hinson, Owen Morris and David Glock in 1979.\u00a0 Conceived as a a simulation of an aborted shuttle launch, the Pewter Mule boosted a 1\/40th scale Orbiter model to altitude before [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,121,122],"tags":[284],"class_list":["post-4624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museum","category-new-addition","category-thank-you","tag-new-addition-thank-you-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4627,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions\/4627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}