Wac Corporal V2 Launch
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(New page: '''Click here to listen to Bumper-WAC launch commentary''' <mediaplayer height=24 width=200>File:Blast_off_v2_bumper_5_Feb_24_1949.mp3</mediaplayer> An Army [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory|J...)
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An Army JPL Bumper-Wac two stage rocket (a Wac Corporal mounted on a V-2 first stage) attained a record altitude of 244 miles and record speed of 5,150 miles per hour over White Sands, N. Mex., yielding information about ion densities in the F-region of the Ionosphere.
