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that became the first object to take a photograph of the

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, the rocket reached a maximum altitude of .

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. The flight was an addition to the Hermes program which had been ongoing since 1944. However V-2 No.13 assembled and launched by General Electric with both captured German components and re-manufactured ones.

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