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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral
NASA ^ | July 19, 2015 | (see photo credit)

Posted on 07/19/2015 12:59:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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.

July 19, 2015

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; capecanaveral; science
[Credit: GRIN, NASA]

1 posted on 07/19/2015 12:59:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; dayglored; ...
The Big One

2 posted on 07/19/2015 1:01:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv
The first photo ever taken from space...aboard a confiscated V2 rocket in 1946:

 photo firstspacephoto.jpeg

3 posted on 07/19/2015 1:02:00 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: gorush

That camera crew sure was close to the pad.


4 posted on 07/19/2015 1:07:09 PM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Well thank goodness NASA finally came to their senses and got out of the Space business and became our muslim outreach facilitator.

Any truth to the rumor that Cape Canaveral is soon to be renamed Cape Barack?

5 posted on 07/19/2015 1:10:15 PM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted!)
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To: Mmogamer

Front Row Seats






...are not always the best seats in the house.

6 posted on 07/19/2015 1:11:01 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Mmogamer

Makes me wonder how much of that pic is faked.


7 posted on 07/19/2015 1:12:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: left that other site
My old tagline:

I wish we lived in less interesting times, but at least we have front-row seats.

8 posted on 07/19/2015 1:15:18 PM PDT by null and void (If the government can't protect the Marines, how can we expect it to protect us?)
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To: null and void

Good One! :-)


9 posted on 07/19/2015 1:31:50 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: PROCON
Cocoa Beach is going to be renamed because the current name drips with white privilege.

10 posted on 07/19/2015 1:41:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: gorush

That’s the one. Thanks! Von Braun did right, surrendering to the western allies, and bringing along most of his working group. Had they not been ass-deep in a war, I don’t doubt that Germany would have orbited humans by 1950, been on the Moon by 1960, and on Mars by the 1970s.

> The first static firing of a full-stage developmental F-1 was performed in March 1959. [i.e., during the Eisenhower administration]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-1_(rocket_engine)


11 posted on 07/19/2015 1:55:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv

I think your timeline is a little accelerated.


12 posted on 07/19/2015 5:49:18 PM PDT by henkster (Where'd my tagline go?)
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To: henkster

:’)


13 posted on 07/19/2015 7:18:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Mmogamer

Before the Safety Nazis got involved..........


14 posted on 07/19/2015 9:24:15 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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