02-23-2010, 07:59 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: North Australia
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1949 ~ At White Sands NM, "Project Bumper” a WAC CORPORAL attached to a German built V-2 rocket, reached a height of 250 miles above sea level, the first rocket to reach outer space. The entire trip took 6-1/2 minutes from firing.
Still using Geman technology 4 1/2 years after the war. The Germans got some things so right, and some so wrong.
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