It was the largest German rocket since V-2, the Nazi-era rocket that has often been described as having launched the space age and was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile.

Now, 80 years to the week since the last V-2 launch of World War II, Germany again has a homegrown liquid-fueled rocket on the launch pad. This time, it's for a much different purpose.

A modifed commercial movie camera atop a captured German V-2 rocket soared 65 miles above the New Mexico desert recording 200,000 76 years ago, the first views of Earth from Space were delivered ...

R-7: Soviet and US technology was driven on by the Cold War In the second of two features, BBC News Online looks at the legacy of the V-2 rocket - how the Americans and the Soviets raced to exploit ...

Such finds are rare, as there was usually nothing left of a V-2: The ballistic missiles struck the ground at twice the speed of sound. Recommended Articles A Passion for Fruit May/June 2025 ...

Goddard's work influenced the creation of the German V-2 rocket, the Saturn V, the rockets that carried the space shuttle into orbit, and so much more.

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 ...

On the Rocket Coast. Hollanders on liberated Walcheren island told of the German’s careful guarding of V-2 launchings; the enemy hustled all civilians indoors when rockets were brought to the ...

On Sept. 6, 1947, a rocket launched from an aircraft carrier for the first time. The V-2 missile was captured from a German manufacturing site by the Allied forces at the end of World War Two.