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US Army / Unidentified Photographer V2 No.3, the first American rocket to reach outer space leaving ground after being ignited at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, 10 May 1946 Vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper, 20.8 x 25.3cm (8 x 10 in), original US Army Ordnance Proving Ground photograph, with printed caption "V-2 leaving ground after being ignited 10 May 1946" and "US Army Ordnance Proving Ground, White Sands, N.M." below image Footnotes: The official boundary of space is the Karman line which lies at an altitude of 62.5 miles (100 km). Von Braun's V-2 rocket was the first man-made object to reach space, at an altitude of 189 kilometres (102 nautical miles) on a June 1944 test flight at Peenemünde in Germany. After WWII, Von Braun and several of his key co-workers were recruited as part of Operation Paperclip, securing critical missile and rocket technology for the US Army. Captured V-2 rockets were shipped to the United States. Firing from the Army's Proving Ground at White Sands, New Mexico, began in 1946 and marked the very beginning of the American space program. Launched on May 10, 1946, this V-2 No.3 was the first American rocket to reach outer space, at an altitude of 70 miles (see LIFE magazine, 27 May 1946, pp. 31-35: https://books.google.fr/books?id=ZEsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA31&hl=fr&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false). Condition Report: Two filing holes Condition Report Disclaimer