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  V-2 rocket in transport.

  The back of the photograph is stamped "Geheime Kommandosache" ("Secret Military Document").
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  Diagram of an A-4 rocket.

  The V-2 rocket was also called the A-4, or Aggregat 4, its technical name. The back of the diagram is stamped "Geheime Kommandosache" ("Secret Military Document").
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  "Test Laboratory progress report" March and April.

  Monthly rogress report for the test laboratory regarding the Saturn 1B program between March and April.
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  "Test Laboratory progress report" Febuary and March.

  Monthly rogress report for the test laboratory regarding the Saturn 1B program between Feburary and March
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  "Test Laboratory progress report" May and June.

  Monthly rogress report for the test laboratory regarding the Saturn 1B program between Feburary and March
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  Ruth Heimburg with her children Ruth Marie and Klaus circa 1959.

  Ruth and her two older children traveling. Location and destination unknown; either going to or from German and Huntsville, Alabama.
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  Ruth Holtz's high school cookbook.

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  Typed letter in Deutsch from Ruth Heimburg to her Father, April 1949.

  This image is of a type-written letter by Ruth Heimburg in Deutsch. Sent from Ft. Bliss, Texas to her Father in Germany. Notably, Ruth asks her Father if her younger brother Dieter has been cooking his potato goulash as that is his "specialty."
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  "Structural problems of large space boosters."

  Report discussing the flaws in having large rocket boosters.
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  Reproduction of an 1838 fifty cent note issued by R. J. Manning in Huntsville, Alabama.

  The note was reproduced by Henderson National Bank in Huntsville as part of Alabama's sesquicentennial celebration in 1969. The reverse of the bill shows the sesquicentennial logo and an ad for the Huntsville Coin Show.