Spaced research in upper atmospheric physics for the Americas

Abstract

During the first years of the space age, right alter the launching of the Sputnik, Space Research was synonymous of Upper Atmospheric Research. Man, for the first time, was capable of placing instruments in an environment which was not reachable befare. This was also true, a few decades befare, when the first high altitude rockets where being developed and testad in the U.S. In fact, most of the unfired V2 rockets which were confiscated from Germany, alter the second world war, were niodified and used to carry instruments to study the upper atmosphere.