# @nasaartemis on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BLyBUGtD-in
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15346437-nasaartemis-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2016-10-20T10:35:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

#TBT to the first rocket launch from Cape Canaveral! A new chapter in space flight began in July of 1950 with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida: the Bumper V-2. Shown above, the Bumper V-2 was an ambitious two-stage rocket program that topped a V-2 missile base with a WAC Corporal rocket. The upper stage was able to reach then-record altitudes of almost 400 kilometers, higher than even Space Shuttles once flew. Launched under the direction of the General Electric Company, the Bumper V-2 was used primarily for testing rocket systems and for research on the upper atmosphere. Bumper V-2 rockets carried small payloads that allowed them to measure attributes including air temperature and cosmic ray impacts. Seven years later, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I and Sputnik II, the first satellites into Earth orbit. In response in 1958, the US created NASA. Image Credit: GRIN, NASA #rocket #launch #nasa #capecanaveral #boom #smokeandfire #journeytomars #progress #blackandwhite

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progress, smokeandfire, tbt, nasa, capecanaveral, rocket, launch, journeytomars, blackandwhite, boom

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