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Modified V-2 rocket
October 1946 V-2 rocket launch
The first photo of the
Earth above the
Kármán line , taken with a motion picture camera aboard the V-2 No. 13.
Launch 24 October 1946; 77 years ago (24 October 1946 ) Pad
White Sands Missile Range Outcome Success Apogee 65 mi (105 km) Serial
no. 13
The V-2 No. 13
[1] was a modified
V-2 rocket that became the first object to take a photograph of the
Earth from
outer space .
[2]
[3] Launched on 24 October 1946,
[4] at the
White Sands Missile Range in
White Sands, New Mexico , the rocket reached a maximum altitude of 65 mi (105 km).
[1]
[5]
Flight
Universal newsreel about the launch
The famous photograph was taken with an attached
DeVry
35 mm black-and-white
motion picture camera .
[3]
[6] The flight was an addition to the
Hermes program which had been ongoing since 1944. Rocket V-2 No.13 was assembled and launched by
General Electric company with both captured German components and re-manufactured ones.
[1]
See also
References
^
a
b
c White, L. (September 1952),
Final Report, Project Hermes V-2 Missile Program , vol. Report No. R52A0510, Schenectady, N.Y.: General Electric Company, retrieved 18 October 2016
^
Air and Space article with photos
^
a
b Fraser, Lorence (1985).
"High Altitude Research at the Applied Physics Laboratory in the 1940s" (PDF) . Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest . 6 (1): 92–99. Retrieved 18 October 2016 .
^
"Compendium of Meteorological Space Programs, Satellites, and Experiments" (PDF) .
NASA . March 1988. p. 10. Retrieved 22 October 2017 .
^
White Sands Missile Range Fact Sheet
^ Beegs, Jr., William (30 July 2015).
"Upper Air Rocket Summary 13" . Archived from
the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016 .