The decision to develop a missile test site was located in Brevard County, Florida, spurred by the Russians. The Soviets were already known, that the space could be achieved with rockets filled with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, when Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (Ziolkovsky), a Russian teacher who first suggested that the space could be achieved in 1903.
The Russian theory was first tested in America by a professor at Clark University. After tenYears of research, Dr. Robert H. Goddard, developed, built and launched the first liquid-propelled rocket in 1926 America. Goddard continued his research in 1930 has remained unchanged, but its basic design. His first job was small the direct precursor of the first German and U.S. probe. Hitler's scientists perfected Goddard V2 rocket technology with their progress in 1940.
The United States has provided hundreds of German guns captured in 1945, with an initial impulseAmerica's space program. The United States has experimented with the German rocket, initially part from ships and from White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. Scientists in New Mexico reached a record level of 250 miles in 1949. In the same year the Soviets exploded their first atomic bomb, which the United States to accelerate R & D, including the development of the common long-range Proving Ground, headquarters in Cape Canaveral.
In June 1950, the U.S. ArmyCorps of Engineers prepared a 100-foot square concrete slab at Cape Canaveral launch, calling the third The first rocket launched from the new test site two-stage vehicle bumper No. 7 was announced. Bumper rocket was a modified version of one of Hitler's V-2. Technicians replaced the original German rocket with a nose tested the rocket's second stage rocket U.S. Army WAC Corporal. The Chief must first start a Teflon nose cone test and demonstrateFeasibility of staging, or separation of the rocket in flight phases. Standing 56 meters high, the Cape was the first missile designed to be enormous, even if placed near the Canaveral Lighthouse portal and missile programs of shame.
Take-off was July 19, 1950 September Dozens of journalists, celebrities, and start from the General Electric Company technicians were at dawn to witness the historic event. Addressed as the final seconds of the countdown, the Entourage has been rewarded with a line of pre-sputtering. ThenSilence. Viewers were interested in the hot July sun, waiting for a trigger is delayed, but the dune Canaveral was an eerie calm. Brevard has a countdown before the first sign of invisible struggles of the nation to defy gravity and atmosphere.
The missile program was intended to pave the way, if residents of the county is the first of the now familiar phrase "the launch was scrubbed." Bumper No. 7 was a disaster program and the rocket was put on hold for several days, while the bumpers No 8was placed on the pad.
The first successful launch at the Cape on 24 July 1950 09:28 occurred. Pierced with a trail of fire streaming from the rear bumper from 8 to Brevard in the clouds of the eastern sky. The first stage of the rocket got a small rocket in the United States 10 miles above the earth, causing it to reach the stratosphere. Take off the Cape was the first successful launch of the seventh issue of the bumper of "step-rockets." Although this first east coast was just the beginningContinued from previous tests Proving Ground in New Mexico, who gave birth to the talk leading role in Brevard County space-age technology. A week after the start was the seat of the test track as Patrick Air Force Base rededicated. The new name honored in January M. Patrick Mason, a military aviator pioneer and the first president of the U.S. Army Air Corps. Read more in Brevard County, Florida: A Brief History to 1955.
