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[Encore] Feet on the Ground, Eyes on the Stars: The True Story of a Real Rocket Man with G.A. “Jim” Ogle
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The Space Rocket Man Mission
The very first launch from Cape Canaveral was on July 24, 1950. It was a V2 rocket with a United States built Army whack corporal second stage. They'd been shooting a lot of the V2s out in Mexico. And by the time they moved that program to the Cape to do that, this staging capability or demonstrate it had not yet been developed. So they attempted to launch the thing and after it got to 50,000 feet or something like that, as I recall reading the story later, the staging didn't really occur, but they reached a very high altitude. That's what I witnessed right here off of Cape Canaveral, Florida, the very first launch.
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