ROCKET CAMERA VIEWS EARTH FROM 76 MILES, WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS, NEW MEXICO Part 1

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 7839 ADC 7839 SOURCE: AFCF (DD Release 12=50) FILM. ARCH & APC MP 546' ea Silent ROCKET CAMERA VIEWS EARTH FROM 76 MILES White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico Rel 21 Feb '50 (NOTE: Views of the earth as seen from an ascending rocket were obtained by a special camera installed in a.V=2 Rocket by the Applied Physics Lab or John Hopkins University, working under contract with the Navy Dept Bureau of Ordnance. The rocket was fired by the Army Ordnance Dept.) MS, special camera being installed in rocket by C T Holliday of the Applied Physics Lab. VSs, earth photographed from rocket. The film shows all of the rocket's flight from launching through ascent of 76 miles and the descent to about 40 miles above the earth. RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35=11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/me

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities