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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 ...

The V-2 was the brainchild of Dr. Wernher von Braun, a German scientist and member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS. His work established many rocket technology advancements that ultimately ...

As workers unwrapped the base of a V-2 rocket at Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection, in Everett, Monday, Military Aviation Curator Corey Graff was giddy. "Just like Christmas here, except you ...

The Mittelwerk GmbH V-2 Rocket — one of only 16 in the world — will be assembled at the aircraft museum, and then displayed as part of the permanent exhibit.

The entire history of the A-4/V-2 rocket program is laid out in this book, from the very early days when Dornberger and his team were launching rockets with little more than matches, all the way ...

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.

He said the rocket reached an altitude of 40 miles and was in flight five minutes. He said the V-2 was being used to test certain component parts in American-made rockets.

Wernher von Braun’s V-2 Rocket Although the Nazi “vengeance weapon” was a wartime failure, it ushered in the space age. Owen Edwards. August 2011. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!