Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/V-2 Rocket Launch

The Bumper 8 Launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida

Voting period ends on 13 Nov 2024 at 23:31:50 (UTC)

Original – The Bumper 8 V-2 Rocket Launch on 24 July 1950

Reason

High quality and historical image showing the first launch from Cape Canaveral in 1950 of a V-2 Rocket, which led to the beginning of the U.S. being interested in space travel and the Space Age. It was (as the description of the image on Wikipedia says) truly the start of a new chapter.

Articles in which this image appears

V-2 rocket, Operation Paperclip

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/American

Creator

NASA/U.S. Army

• Support as nominator – Wcamp9 (talk) 23:31, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
• Comment could use some light restoration. I'm seeing a couple scratches, some dirt. Nothing crazy bad... probably 20 or 30 minutes, tops.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 18:27, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
• Comment – Interesting historically that the U.S. was still using V-2s seven years after production began in nazi Germany – showing how advanced technically it was. Later in WWII many were built by slave labor. – Sca (talk) 15:08, 5 November 2024 (UTC)