July
24, 1950
America
Gets a Spaceport
Cape Canaveral in Florida was used
for the first time to launch a rocket. The U.S. Army sent the two-stage Bumper
8, which combined a German V-2 rocket and an American WAC Corporal
rocket, to an altitude of 51,000 feet in 83 seconds, then exploded it by remote
control when it descended to 20,000 feet 57 seconds later
From 1963 to 1973, the area had a different name when US
President Lyndon Johnson by executive
order renamed the area "Cape Kennedy" after President John
F. Kennedy, who had set the goal of landing on the moon. After Kennedy's
assassination in 1963, his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, suggested to
President Johnson that renaming the Cape Canaveral facility would be an
appropriate memorial. Johnson recommended the renaming of the entire cape,
announced in a televised address six days after the assassination. Accordingly,
Cape Canaveral was officially renamed Cape Kennedy
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