By 1942 they had successfully test-launched a flying bomb (the V-1) and a supersonic missile (the V-2). Hitler believed these ‘vengeance’ weapons would win him the war. Aerial intelligence ...

Walter Dornberger (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1980-009-33 / CC-BY-SA 3.0) This is the world in which V-2, written by the head of the German rocket development program Walter Dornberger, takes place.

Hazy Center is now completing its counterpart, the V-1 cruise missile, which will be displayed in the Jay I. Kislak World War ...

But the V-2 wasn’t the only rocket-powered vehicle that the Germans were working on, a whole series of follow-up vehicles were in the design phase when the Allies took Berlin in 1945. Some were ...

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Are you aware that the first rocket that made it to space was actually built for war? The German V-2 A4 rocket, launched off the Baltic coast, achieved an altitude of almost 190 km – high above ...

Originally called the A-4 (Aggregat-4), the V-2 was the brainchild of Wernher von Braun, the missile maestro and spaceflight visionary whose post-war NASA career spearheaded the birth of the ...

On October 24, 1946, the camera was launched aboard a V-2 missile from the White Sands Missile Range in the United States, marking the official crossing of the Kármán line, the boundary between ...