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The Redstone rocket was
largely developed by Werner von Braun and his team of German rocket scientists who
migrated to the United States after World War II and worked at the US Army Ballistic
Missile Authority (AMBA) in Huntsville, Alabama. The rocket started as a development for
an intermediate range ballistic missile in 1950, and achieved this goal in 1958. It
was first launched at Cape Canaveral in 1961 by NASA. In its original form, the Redstone
launched some of the Mercury manned flights. (shown at right)
A solid fuel fourth stage was added to it and the Redstone became
the
Jupiter C rocket that launched Explorer 1,
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