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US Recon Aircraft capturing a PAVN SA-2 Dvina site that had been partially annihalated presumably by a CBU-24 Cluster Bomb used by Wild Weasels.

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Would not want to be flying near this fella, even if presumed destroyed

"The second test flight of the Saturn I (SA-2) rocket was launched successfully not long after this photograph was taken at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Saturn I rocket was designed to launch payloads into low Earth orbit and was the most powerful launch vehicle used by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to date. SA-2 was a suborbital flight which released a test payload of 30,000 gallons of water in the upper atmosphere, in order to examine the effects of radio transmissions and local weather. Ten Saturn I rockets were flown until the model was replaced by the Saturn IB."

Photograph from the Larry Summers Collection.

Date: April 25, 1962

Eggman wants to take over the world and he enlists the military's secret weapon, Shadow, to do so. He is FULLY using Shadow and Rouge for his own goals.

But then it's revealed Shadow actually has his own goals and is actually using Eggman to get the Chaos Emeralds to enact his own surprise world-ending plan.

"The S-I stages for the Saturn I (SA-1 at right and SA-2 at left) are being assembled at the Marshall Space Flight Center, building 4705. The Saturn I S-I stage had eight H-1 engines clustered, using liquid oxygen/kerosene-1 (LOX/RP-1) propellants capable of producing a total of 1,500,000 pounds of thrust."

Date: 1961

SA-2 Saturn I sitting at LC-34 with the service structure around it.

Date: April 1962

"SA-2 Saturn I undergoes radio frequency checkout shortly before its April 25, 1962 launch from Launch Complex 34."

Date: April 1962

SA-2 Saturn I lifting off from LC-34 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This was the first flight of Project Highwater, which was carried on SA-2 through SA-4.

Diagram of the flight plan and release of the water through exploding the dummy S-IV.

"This vehicle had a secondary mission. After the first stage shutoff, at a 65-mile altitude, the water-filled upper stage was exploded, dumping 95 tons of water in the upper atmosphere. The resulting massive ice cloud rose to a height of 90 miles. The experiment, called Project Highwater, was intended to investigate the effects on the ionosphere of the sudden release of such a great volume of water."

Explosion of the upper stage containing the water.

Date: April 25, 1962

NASA ID: LOD 62-PC-39, MSFC-6203276, 6203276, LOD 62-3644

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