The First Launch of a V-2 Rocket From America Captured German missiles took flight from the New Mexico desert in the early years after World War II.

While Germany's V-2 rocket was a terrifying weapon used during World War II, it also ushered in what eventually became the Space Race.

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The V-2 was the first long-range ballistic missile to be used in combat. The rockets killed more than 8,000 people in the last year of the war, mostly in England and Belgium, according to some ...

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John Clarke was six years old when the first V-2 rocket to hit London landed outside his house in Chiswick in the west of the capital. "The best way of describing it is television with the sound off.

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A modifed commercial movie camera atop a captured German V-2 rocket soared 65 miles above the New Mexico desert recording 200,000 ...

Still, the V-2 could fly a parabolic mission to space. In fact, British researchers had noted that the V-2 rocket was almost large enough to carry a man in a small capsule.

The world’s first ballistic missile was overseen by a German scientist who’d go on to develop the Saturn V rocket that put Apollo 11 on the moon in 1969. The Development of the V-2 Rocket ...

WHITE SANDS, N.M. (KRQE) – 78 years ago, the world got its first look at Earth from space and New Mexico played a key role in the effort. It’s a common sight today, seeing satellites and… ...