\<COLOUR 1> PROPELLANTS: \<COLOUR 0> First stage, ethanol (ethyl alcohol)/liquid oxygen; second stage, solid
\<COLOUR 1> PAYLOAD: \<COLOUR 0> Instruments
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico; Cape Canaveral, Florida
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USA
\<COLOUR 1> COMMENTS: \<COLOUR 0> The first two-stage rocket, consisting of a V-2 (first stage), with a WAC Corporal solid rocket (second stage) on top; the first flight, from White Sands, takes place on May 13, 1948; on the fifth flight, on February 24, 1949, the Bumper reaches a record altitude of 393 km; the seventh launch, on July 24, 1950, is the first rocket launch ever at Cape Canaveral, at what is at first called the Long Range Proving Ground; the next and final Bumper launch takes place at the Cape five days later.