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My name is Gabriel. I don't use this blog much.

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First Launch from Cape Canaveral

A new chapter in space flight began in July of 1950 with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida: the Bumper 2. Shown above, the Bumper 2 was an ambitious two-stage rocket program that topped a V-2 missile base with a WAC Corporal rocket. The upper stage was able to reach then-record altitudes of almost 400 kilometers, higher than even modern space shuttles fly today.

Launched under the direction of the General Electric Company, the Bumper 2 was used primarily for testing rocket systems and for research on the upper atmosphere. Bumper 2 rockets carried small payloads that allowed them to measure attributes including air temperature and cosmic ray impacts. Seven years later, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I and II, the Earth's first artificial satellites.

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Painfully average looking with a great sense of humor and always down to get drunk

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A three second exposure photograph taken from the ISS by Commander Reid Wiseman shows a unique view of the Earth's atmosphere.

Follow him on twitter here for more pictures from the ISS.

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yesterday he was no one, today he was a star.

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Abandoned Roadside general store, Alabama

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Poland, 1987: Zbigniew Religa monitors his patient's vitals while his assistant rests in the corner after a heart transplant operation. The operation, performed with outdated equipment, took 23 hours and was the first heart transplant done in Poland to be successful. The patient would go on to outlive Mr. Religa.

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Fresh snowfall looks like space.