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Early Rockets
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Early Rockets

NASA / MSFC · 1958-05-15 · photograph (digital archive)

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Redstone missile No. 1002 on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on May 16, 1958. The Redstone ballistic missile was a high-accuracy, liquid-propelled, surface-to-surface missile developed by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, Redstone Arsenal, in Huntsville, Alabama, under the direction of Dr. von Braun. The Redstone engine was a modified and improved version of the Air Force's Navaho cruise missile engine of the late forties.

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Credit lineEarly Rockets. NASA/MSFC, 1958-05-15. Public domain. ID: 5800669.

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