(Norm Zeisloft/Stars and Stripes)

Stuttgart, Germany, July 1962: A crew member handles the liquid oxygen line to a Redstone missile during an exercise at Panzer Kasern in Stuttgart. The dependable 70-foot Redstone, added to the USAREUR arsenal in 1958, had a range of up to 200 miles; it was also the vehicle used for the first two American manned spaceflights.