North American Rockwell Overseas Corp. - 1968-72 dated Aircraft, Defense and Spa For Sale

Stock printed by Jeffries Banknote Co. Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate involved in aircraft, the space industry, defense and commercial electronics, components in the automotive industry, printing presses, avionics and industrial products. Rockwell International\'s predecessor was \'Rockwell Manufacturing Company\', founded in 1919 by Willard Rockwell. In 1955, the rocket engine operations were spun off into a separate division as Rocketdyne. This division furnished engines for the Redstone, Jupiter, Thor, Delta, and Atlas missiles, and for NASA\'s Saturn family of launch vehicles. North American designed and built the airframe for the X-15, a rocket-powered aircraft that first flew in 1959. In 1959, North American built the first of several Little Joe boosters used to test the launch escape system for the Project Mercury spacecraft. In 1960, the new CEO Lee Atwood decided to focus on the space program, and the company became the prime contractor for the Apollo command and service module, a larger Little Joe II rocket to test Apollo\'s launch escape system, and the S-II second stage of the Saturn V. T Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.