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Rocket Science, Roswell, New Mexico, 1940

"Fedoras firmly planted, technicians from Robert H. Goddard's Roswell, New Mexico, workshop transport pieces of a rocket to its launch site in January 1940. Geographic staff writer McFall Kerbey carries the nose cone."

—From "Flashback: Rocket Science—Surviving in Space," January 2001, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart