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80-G-702770: V-2 Rocket at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, 1946

80-G-702770: U.S. Navy will send miniature lab in the warhead of a V-2 rocket 100 miles in the air to explore the atmosphere on June 27th at White Sand Proving Ground, Las Cruces, New Mexico. The flight will take 6 minutes and the data will be radioed down to Earth. This project will be in collaboration with Army ordnance engineers. The miniature lab was prepared by the Naval Research Laboratory, Bellvue, Washington, D.C. Shown: C. H. Smith (left), Physicist and Assistant to Dr. E. H. Krause, (right), head of the rocket section of the Naval Research Laboratory, 1946. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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Caption: 80-G-702770: U.S. Navy will send miniature lab in the warhead of a V-2 rocket 100 miles in the air to explore the atmosphere on June 27th at White Sand Proving Ground, Las Cruces, New Mexico. The flight will take 6 minutes and the data will be radioed down to Earth. This project will be in collaboration with Army ordnance engineers. The miniature lab was prepared by the Naval Research Laboratory, Bellvue, Washington, D.C. Shown: C. H. Smith (left), Physicist and Assistant to Dr. E. H. Krause, (right), head of the rocket section of the Naval Research Laboratory, 1946. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.