But the V-2 wasn’t the only rocket-powered ... and to this day, no orbital rocket has ever launched from German soil.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The German V-2 rocket was not a real guided missile. Its control apparatus was set before firing. If the rocket went in the wrong direction, all that could be done was to cut off the fuel supply ...

On October 24, 1946, the V2 rocket became the first human-made object to reach outer space, reaching an altitude of about 65 miles. Onboard was a 35 mm camera that captured the first images of Earth.

At White Sands, N.Mex., Army scientists succeeded for the first time last week in maneuvering (up & down, right & left) a German V-2 rocket in flight. It was the most important advance in guided ...

The crew of a Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS - MARS II) of the German armed forces Bundeswehr is pictured at the military ground in Ostenholz, Germany, on Oct. 17, 2022. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP ...