Redstone Rocket
by Benjamin Yeager
Title
Redstone Rocket
Artist
Benjamin Yeager
Medium
Photograph - Black And White Photo
Description
A view of the Redstone Rocket launch stand at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Redstone was the first large American ballistic missile. A short-range surface-to-surface rocket, it was in active service with the U.S. Army in West Germany from June 1958 to June 1964 as part of NATO's Cold War defense of Western Europe. It was the first missile to carry a live nuclear warhead, first detonated in a 1958 Pacific Ocean weapons test, with two tests occurring over a period of 12 days.
Original image courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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May 5th, 2013
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