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On this day in space! Sept. 6, 1947: The US Navy launches 1st V-2 rocket at sea in ballistic missile test
The test, while unsucessful, did show that Navy ships could be floating launch pads for a new kind of weapon: the ballistic missile. On Sept. 6, 1947, a rocket launched from an aircraft carrier for the first time. The V-2 rocket was captured from a German manufacturing site by the Allied forces at the end of World War II [1].
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