Chevrolet Corvette
Corvette celebrates Nasa links
The Chevrolet Corvette has been the unofficial car of astronauts since May 5, 1961, when Alan Shepard leaped from his Mercury spacecraft into the two-seater after becoming the first non-Soviet to travel into space. Ref. Source 1
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Chevrolet Corvette (Hover)
Titled “The Vision Realized: 60 Years of Midengine Corvette Design” and created by GM Design Archive & Collections, the exhibit included 19 original sketches by designers including Larry Shinoda and Tom Peters, the massive 4-Rotor rotary engine from the 1973 Aerovette engineering, a wood wind-tunnel model, even letters from Arkus-Duntov’s personal files. Source 8m.