At 2:47 on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 16, 1946, a captured Nazi V-2 missile ascended from the U.S. Army’s new White Sands Proving Ground in south-central New Mexico. It didn’t get very far.

But 10 years before Sputnik would ignite the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, V-2 rockets taken from Nazi Germany after World War 2 were fired from White Sands Missile Range.

After World War II ended in Germany, the U.S. Army brought a lot of the German rocket scientists and quite a few of the V2 rockets that were already built to the United States.

The Mittelwerk GmbH V-2 Rocket — one of only 16 in the world — will be assembled at the aircraft museum, ... After Germany’s surrender, captured missiles were brought to the United States.

Rocket engineer Werner von Braun and his team developed the V-2 at a research station in Peenemunde, Germany. In 1945, von Braun led about 120 of his colleagues to the United States under a ...

After World War II, the United States acquired some of Germany's V-2 missiles for rocket tests. This modified V-2 was fired from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on July 24, 1950.

Had World War II not ended when it did, Nazi Germany likely would have sent more V-2 rockets hurtling toward potential victims. One of those missiles is now in Everett. The restored rocket was ...

Sixty years ago today, the United States used a modified German V-2 rocket to send the country’s first satellite, Explorer 1, into orbit around the Earth.

In 1960, Columbia Pictures released a movie about NASA rocket scientist Wernher von Braun called I Aim at the Stars. Comedian Mort Sahl suggested a subtitle: But Sometimes I Hit London. Von Braun ...

But 10 years before Sputnik would ignite the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, V-2 rockets taken from Nazi Germany after World War 2 were fired from White Sands Missile Range.

Had World War II not ended when it did, Nazi Germany likely would have sent more V-2 rockets hurtling toward potential victims. One of those missiles is now in Everett. The restored rocket was ...