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A Soyuz-FG rocket launches from "Gagarin's Start" (Site 1/5), Baikonur Cosmodrome. A rocket (from Italian: rocchetto, lit. ''bobbin/spool'', and so named for its shape) [nb 1] [1] is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using any surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. [2]
The V-2 No. 13 [1] was a modified V-2 rocket that became the first object to take a photograph of the Earth from outer space. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Launched on 24 October 1946, [ 4 ] at the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico , the rocket reached a maximum altitude of 65 miles (105 km).
MW 18014 was a German A-4 test rocket [nb 1] launched on 20 June 1944, [1] [2] [3] at the Peenemünde Army Research Center in Peenemünde.It was the first human-made object to reach outer space, attaining an apogee of 176 kilometres (109 mi), well above the Kármán line that was established later as the lowest altitude of space. [4]
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At the same time, the international space race between smaller space powers since the end of the 20th century can be considered the foundation and expansion of markets of commercial rocket launches and space tourism. [citation needed] The United States continued other space exploration, including major participation with the ISS with its own ...
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Soyuz rocket assembly: the first and second stages are in the background, already joined; the third stage is in the lower left corner of the image. The Soyuz spacecraft, covered by its launch shroud, is in the lower right corner. The rocket is assembled horizontally in the Assembly and Testing Building.