It had its genesis in the MX-774B program, an effort built on the V-2 but improved considerably beyond it by the Air Force. |
Simons, designed a seat in the nose cone of a V-2 rocket to fit a monkey attached to instruments that measured blood pressure, pulse and respirations. |
Army began launching reassembled V-2 rockets, and American rockets, from White Sands in New Mexico. |
There were newsreel shots of V-1 and V-2 being blasted from their takeoff ramps and a montage of later experimental models. |