• A man leans on a rocket that is about two times as tall as him. The rocket is fixed to a launch tower. Part of a truck can be seen in the background.
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    The WAC Corporal was a high-altitude test rocket used by the U.S. Army from 1945 to 1950. It represents the state of U.S. rocketry around the time that the V-2 was operational. In this photo, aeronautical engineer Frank J. Malina leans against a WAC Corporal sounding rocket, White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, September 1945.

  • A man leans on a rocket that is about two times as tall as him. The rocket is fixed to a launch tower. Part of a truck can be seen in the background.

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