The National Air and Space Museum has more than 2,000 space toys in its collections, including popular metal toys from the late 1950s and early 1960s, such as the aluminum "Space Tank," left.

Appraisal: Waco Space Refuel Station Toy, ca. 1960 ...

This very small "space gun" is a tin toy manufactured in Japan for export to Western markets, probably in the 1950s and 1960s. Although Nomura Toy of Tokyo produced this gun, that firm usually ...