00:00 On this day in space.
00:03 On February 21st, 1931, Germany launched its first liquid-fueled rocket. Sort of.
00:09 The rocket only made it about 10 feet off the ground.
00:12 To be fair, the rocket itself was only 2 feet tall, so it did achieve an altitude of about 5 times its height.
00:18 The rocket was named "Huckelwinkler 1" after the engineers who designed and built it.
00:22 It was powered by a combination of liquid oxygen and liquid methane.
00:27 Huckelwinkler 1 lifted off from a drilling field near Dessau, Germany on two separate flights.
00:31 After the first launch was a failure, the rocket did reach its planned altitude of 500 feet during its second flight three weeks later.
00:37 And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:42 (Electronic Sounds of Data)
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