{"id":3145,"date":"2013-07-25T04:33:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T04:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-launch-from-cape-canaveral\/"},"modified":"2013-07-25T04:33:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T04:33:35","slug":"first-launch-from-cape-canaveral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-launch-from-cape-canaveral\/","title":{"rendered":"First Launch from Cape Canaveral"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1867\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1868\" title=\"Bumper 8 Launch\" alt=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bumper_(rocket)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/45e91__bumper8launch-300x211.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" \/>July 24, 1950<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spaceline.org%2Fbumper%2Fbumper8.html\" target=\"_blank\">first successful rocket launch occurs at Cape Canaveral<\/a>. The rocket, <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBumper_%28rocket%29\" target=\"_blank\">Bumper 8<\/a>, was a captured German V-2 modified with a US Army Corporal second stage.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Canaveral\u2019s location in the southeast is an ideal site for rocket launches in the United States. By launching eastward, rockets are able to take advantage of the linear velocity of the Earth\u2019s rotation. This velocity is greatest towards the equator, making the southern United States preferable. And by launching towards the ocean, away from populated areas, safety downrange from the launch is maximized in case of problems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F07%2F23%2Fcommodore-amiga-introduced%2F\" rel=\"prev\">Commodore Amiga Introduced<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/45e91__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/07\/24\/first-launch-from-cape-canaveral\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 24, 1950 The first successful rocket launch occurs at Cape Canaveral. The rocket, Bumper 8, was a captured German V-2 modified with a US Army Corporal second stage. Cape Canaveral\u2019s location in the southeast is an ideal site for rocket launches in the United States. By launching eastward, rockets are able to take advantage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[917,916,399,405,489],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-canaveral","tag-cape","tag-first","tag-from","tag-launch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}