Oct 16 1957

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USAF successfully launched pellets at a speed faster than 33,000 mph (some 8,900 mph faster than the velocity necessary to escape from the earth) by an Aerobee rocket to a height of 35 miles ; the nose section then ascended to a height of 54 miles where shaped charges blasted the pellets into space.

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