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Originally Posted by crosscountry
done by humans?
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Yes, it was with a rocket for the purpose stated. It carried instrumentation for other projects, too.
Ok, and I have given
Eroica time to jump in. [Through searching, I learned that he knows the answer, if he can go back several years to our posts.] Also, I don't want to drag it out as the answer may make this bludgeoner a bludgeonee (for reasons that may be all too apparent).
The first attempt at this was years before Sputnik, in the mid 1940s.