Test Stand VII

But just to raise the money they need to catch up for all the money they were required to give the state for all those years, the Turnpike Commission estimates they'll have to keep raising the tolls until 2056.

This week in 1942, the Space Age officially begins with the first successful launch of a V-2 A4 rocket from Test Stand 7 in Germany.

It is the first man-made object to reach space.

Then the Soviet Union put a satellite into space, Sputnik, in 1957, and then about a month later, Laika the dog was a passenger on Sputnik 2, becoming the first living being aboard a spacecraft.