Apr 29 1961
From The Space Library
Saturn booster firing of 30 seconds using timer at predetermined setting was successful in flight qualification test.
On this day Wernher von Braun wrote a letter to Vice President Lyndon Johnson explaining America's chances of beating the Soviet Union to the moon. Von Braun's letter (5MB PDF)
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