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Old 10-03-2008, 07:48 PM
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Well, if you look at it that way - the line where Space is defined as starting is 50 miles (I think Statute - not Nautical - but not sure on this...) above the Earth's surface.

So the first sub-orbital flight into space are probably one of Werner's V2s. They easily exceeded 50 miles.
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