Credit & Copyright: NASA
Explanation:
A new chapter in space flight began in 1950 with the
launch of the first rocket from
Cape Canaveral,
Florida: the Bumper V-2.
Featured here, the
Bumper V-2 was an ambitious two-stage rocket program that topped a
V-2 missile base with a
WAC Corporal rocket.
The upper stage was able to reach then-record altitudes of almost 400 kilometers,
higher than even International Space Station.
Launched
under the direction of the
General Electric Company,
the Bumper V-2 was used primarily for
testing rocket systems and for research on the
upper atmosphere.
Bumper V-2 rockets carried
small payloads that
allowed them to measure attributes including air temperature and
cosmic ray impacts.
Seven years later, the
Soviet Union launched
Sputnik I and Sputnik II, the first
satellites into Earth orbit.
In response in 1958, 60 years ago today, the
USA created NASA.
Anniversary:
NASA: 60 Years and Counting
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