The Army Hermes A-1 test rocket was fired from WSPG and assisted American engineers to understand and improve on the technology of the V-2. Lessons learned on the Hermes were applied to the Navaho, Atlas, and Redstone missile projects.

• V-2 technology targeted for Hermes.

  Army Ordnance made plans under the Hermes program to study the German V-2 missile.

• First Hermes launch.

  First Army Hermes A-1 test rocket fired at WSPG.

• 17 - Emme, Eugene M, Aeronautics and Astronautics: An American Chronology of Science and Technology in the Exploration of Space 1915-1960, NASA, 1961. HTML when accessed: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html