by APOD Robot » Sun Jul 19, 2015 4:11 am
The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral
Explanation: A new chapter in space flight began this week in 1950 July with the launch of the first rocket from
Cape Canaveral,
Florida: the Bumper V-2.
Shown above, 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
Space Shuttles once flew.
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, the
US created NASA.
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