Made in the late 1960s or 1970s, this gun, like many of the earlier toy ray guns, combines a chamber for conventional bullets with a variety of spacegun-like features. (The orange and green plastic barrel is particularly whimsical and "spacey.") Despite the asronaut pictured on the handle, this gun shows that probably well into the 1970s the popular appeal of space adventure was still tied to the myth of the American West and the six shooter. Length 9 1/2 inches.