Feb 24 1949

From The Space Library

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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.

Lecture by H.J. Kaeppeler to the GfW in Stuttgart, "Relativitatstheorie und Astronautik".