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"weltraum" found 67 times in 29 documents

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"1950" found 825 times in 328 documents

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Jul 5 1950

James H. Doolittle named "aviator of the decade" (1940-49) by the Harmon International Aviation Awards Committee, while Jacqueline Cochran was named "aviatrix of the decade."

Jul 21 1950

First polyethylene balloon launched at Holloman by USAF personnel.

Jul 24 1950

Bumper No. 8, a German V-2 missile V-2 with a 700-pound Army-JPL Wac Corporal , was fired from Long-Range Proving Ground at Cape Canaveral ; the first-stage V-2 missile V-2 climbed 10 miles separated from the second-stage Corporal which traveled 15 more miles. This was the first missile launch from Cape Canaveral .

Jul 29 1950

Bumper No. 7 was the second missile launch from Cape Canaveral . reached highest velocity (Mach 9) attained by a manmade object to date.

Aug 1 1950

Patrick Air Force Base , administrative headquarters of the AFMTC at Cape Canaveral , officially named after Gen. Mason M. Patrick.

Aug 31 1950

Last of five Aeromedical Laboratory experiments (first four known as Albert series) fired by V-2 missile V-2 No. 51 from White Sands Proving Ground WSPG . which carried a non-anesthetized mouse photographed by a camera which survived impact.

Sep 22 1950

Col. David C. Schilling and Lt. Col. William Ritchie flew two Republic F-84E jet fighters across the Atlantic nonstop, Schilling flying from London to New York with three in-flight refuelings, the first nonstop jet flight across the Atlantic, while Ritchie was forced to bail out over Newfoundland.