Jul 25, 2025 02:29 AM
It happened on July 24, 1950. The rocket was Bumper 8, one of the V-2 rockets that the US appropriated in Germany in 1945, modified with a small second stage. (Back then, two-stage rockets were the latest thing, an exciting innovation.)
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