Looks like what the 1950 fiction writers came up with for shows like Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon.



https://www.sciencealert.com/e...51tBFb2q_vHNdRD6cb9A

You mean 1930 don't you?
It's a classic rocket shape all right, but not quite a match for the most beautiful rocket in the world -- the V-2. The White Sands Missile Range museum has one in its own building an hour from here.

Ha! That's exactly what I thought! I expected to see Flash Gordon and Ming the Merciless standing next to it. You never know where Musk gets his ideas.

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
You mean 1930 don't you?
It's a classic rocket shape all right, but not quite a match for the most beautiful rocket in the world -- the V-2. The White Sands Missile Range museum has one in its own building an hour from here.

is that the one used to be on dyer st in el paso ? u knew when u passed it dyer was gonna turn into a dirt track into the desert

John, I don't know. I have a friend in Ruidoso who grew up in El Paso and remembers being in high school the day one of von Braun's V-2s went out of control, left the missile range and blew up near town. That same friend also watched the Air Force haul bags of body parts down the Franklin Mountains after the B-36 crashed in December of 1953.

"near town" was actually juarez. my dad always said it was the only time that they actually hit a good target.
i grew up at the foot of the franklins right below where that bomber hit. when i left home at 13 you could still the scorch marks plain as day.

Hoping to make the hike to the crash site here before too long and the snakes get busy ...

Someone pull up Tom Leherers song 'Werner Von Braun' from the mid 60's.... "Some have harsh words for this man of renown,but some think out attitude,should be one of gratitude,like the widows + cripples in old London town,who owe their large pensions to Werner Von Braun."etc. It's on the album "That was the year that was."

I used to work at MAR Site at White Sands Missile Range when I was in college. http://www.wsmr-history.org/MAR-I.htm

We used to be the "target". They would fire missiles from Green River, Utah, and we would track them incoming. Hit close enough to put dirt in the air once, but also overshot once and impacted in Mexico. (The Mexicans were pretty understanding.)

I remember they undershot us once and hit somewhere between Albuquerque and MAR Site. It was about a hundred mile miss. (MAR stood for Multi-function Array Radar.)