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The V-2 rocket, or Vergeltungswaffe Zwei ("Vengeance Weapon Two"), was the world’s first long-range ballistic missile, manufactured by concentration camp workers and deployed by Nazi Germany as a terror weapon. After World War II, the United States transported captured V-2 parts to White Sands, New Mexico, where they were assembled into test missiles for use in upper atmosphere research. This report includes the first published photographs taken from space, made with two aircraft cameras that were mounted to a V-2 rocket and operated automatically. Although the photography was chiefly intended to improve knowledge of missile motion, the report concedes that “the appearance of the earth is unquestionably the most striking feature of the photographs.”
Each page is an overlay describing the photograph below. Naval Research Laboratory Report R-3083. One of 47 copies.
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