RTV-G-4 Bumper
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The RTV-G-4 Bumper was a sounding rocket built by the United States. A combination of the German V-2 rocket and the WAC Corporal sounding rocket, it was used to study problems pertaining to two-stage
Bumper 5, launched February 24, 1949
Bumper in two pieces: V-2 first stage behind WAC Corporal second stage
Test launch of a Bumper V-2.
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RTV-G-4 Bumper
…first six flights were conducted at the White Sands Missile Range; the seventh launch, Bumper 8 on July 24, 1950, was the first rocket launched from Cape Canaveral. The Bumper program to produce and launch a two-stage combination of the V-2 and WAC Corporal rockets was conceived in July 1946 by Colonel Holger N…
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Alan Shepard watches Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 launch in the Mercury Control Center.
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