and the end of World War II also marked the end of Germany’s space program. It would take until 1978 before a German citizen reached space aboard a Soviet rocket, and to this day, no orbital ...

The rocket was introduced by the Germans in 1944 and was 14m long A German V2 rocket from World War II has been found nose down in the mud flats at Harwich Harbour in the east coast of England.

Germany is known for its engineering expertise, and this resulted in some of the most impressive fighter planes in history.

The first photograph of our planet taken from outer space dates back to 1946 when the Americans used a captured German V2 rocket from World War II. At the end of the Second World War, the United ...

The activities of the West German rocket and aircraft scientists have evoked sharp and repeated criticism from Israel’s Government, and from a wide variety of Jewish and non-Jewish organizations.