1954 in spaceflight

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Launches

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This is a list of spaceflights launched in 1954.

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Launch Date/Time Rocket Launch
Site		 Launch Contractor Payload Operator Orbit Mission/
Function		 Re-Entry/
Destruction		 Outcome Remarks
7 May 1954, 17:00 GMT Viking 9 LC-33, White Sands Martin/US Navy Viking 10 NRL Sub-orbital Ionospheric and aeronomy research 7 May 1954 Successful Apogee: 219 km (136 mi)
24 May 1954, 17:00 GMT Viking 9 White Sands Martin Viking 11 NRL Sub-orbital Re-entry vehicle test 24 May 1954 Successful Reached 254 km (158 mi)
5 October 1954 Aerobee White Sands NRL Sub-orbital photography Successful first image of a complete hurricane, from 100 mi. altitude[1][2]

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ NASA History Office - Aeronautics and Astronautics Chronology, 1950-1954
  2. ^ NOAA Photo Library - View of tropical cyclone centred near Del Rio, Texas


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