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The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral US (1950)

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 kilometres, about the height of the modern 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.

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