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1) Name?Bumper
2) Design Speed? Mach=4.29585
3) Design Altitude? Miles=244
4) Rocket #B-3 was the first to do what? The second stage used a liquid propellant with a 32 second burn.
5) Rocket #B-5 was the first to do what? (Hint: date was February 24, 1949)
It attained a speed of 5,150 miles per hour and an altitude of approximately 250 miles making it the greatest velocity and the highest altitude ever reached by a man-made object.
6) Rocket #B-8 was the first to do what? (Hint: date was July 23, 1950)
First Launch From Cape Canaveral.
7) Rocket #B-7 was the first to do what? (hint: date was July 29, 1950)
Bumper 7 attained a speed of Mach 9, the highest sustained speed that had ever been reached in the Earth's atmosphere.
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