SPACE FRONTIER ROCKET APOLLO 11- YOSHINO - JAPAN

Also sold in a virtually identical box as SPACE ROCKET. This is one of the rockets with complex actions designed to reflect the NASA space program. A long silver tin and plastic battery operated rocket with a red plastic nosecone and a large yellow plastic engine at the rear.

Battery operated bump and go action. The rocket stops, the nose cone rotates, and finally an astronaut with camera emerges from the hinged panel on the top.

This toy has been dated to 1969 in a Lewis Galoob Toy Catalog.

Yoshino regularly updated this rocket by simply changing the number on the side: 11, 12 & 15 are known. The boxes were altered.