Apr 22 1961
From The Space Library
NASA fired first seven-stage Trailblazer rocket from Wallops Station, first three stages firing meteorite to 175-mile altitude and next four stages back through the atmosphere in a high-speed reentry experiment.
Italian Air Force personnel fired Jupiter IRBM in training launch at Cape Canaveral.
“The Columbus of the Interplanetary Age: Major Gagarin” article in the Illustrated London News
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