Pencil Rocket

[Incongruent]

A cursory search here returned no results, so following is a document detailing the Pencil Rocket, which began the Japanese Space Program.
https://global.jaxa.jp/article/interview/sp1/index_e.html

If anyone is interested.

 

[MarsFire]

Excellent article! Thank you very much for posting that.

 

[dhbarr]

Neat! Would live to see the sample they say is in the Smithsonian.