Space Exploration Timeline

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Apr 25, 1964
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First launch of a French experimental lithergol rocket, LEX, from the Levant Island

LEX (French: Lithergol EXpérimentale) was a French experimental hybrid-propellant sounding rocket, developed by ONERA. It had the objective of testing a lithergol fueled rocket engine (an hybrid mixture of solid and liquid propellants - Nylon-metatolueneamine as fuel and mixture of nitric acid and nitrogen tetroxide as oxidizer). It was the first rocket in history to use this technology, flying 8 times between 1964 and 1967.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEX_(sounding_rocket)