330-PS-285-3:  USS Norton Sound (AV 11), technicians make final adjustments to firing the Navy’s Viking Rocket which set a new altitude record for American built, single-stage rockets.  It ascended to an estimated distance of 106.4 statue miles after being fired from the ship.  It was the first time the Viking, largest U.S. Navy upper atmosphere research rocket was fired from a ship.   Photograph released May 10, 1950.  (7/22/2015).
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