The United States launches a V-2 rocket from New Mexico to an altitude of 110 km, carrying a swarm of fruit flies. After three minutes in space (suborbital flight), the Blossom capsule returns and the flies are recovered safe and sound. The first living beings in space? Perhaps they are the flies on the captured V-2 rockets, launched from White Sands, New Mexico. This is obviously a suborbital flight, but beyond the Karman line, which marks the beginning of space at 100 km.
