On October 10, 1946, a V-2 rocket, instrumented by the Naval Research Laboratory, was launched from White Sands, New Mexico, and carried an ultraviolet spectrograph above the ozone layer to photograph the solar ultraviolet spectrum. After twenty-five years of rocket astronomy, it is therefore appropriate to trace some of the history of astronomy from space platforms.
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FRIEDMAN, H. Astronomy: Twenty-five Years of Rocket and Satellite Astronomy. Nature 234, 181–183 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/234181a0
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