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The Cape’s first rocket
On 24 July 1950, 60 years ago to the day, the American army launched a Bumper rocket, an American WAC Corporal rocket carried atop a modified German V-2. This was part of America’s attempt to master astronautical techniques. This eighth flight of a Bumper, which ended at an altitude of 16 km, was the first to be carried out from Florida’s Cap Canaveral site.
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Star Trek and NASA

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Alan Shepard, from suborbital to the Moon

50 years ago on 5 May 1961, a few weeks after Gagarin, American Alan Shepard reached space. Several years later, he was to walk on the Moon, summarising as it were the race in which the Soviet Union and the United States were competing.