A previous post discussed the creation of the V-2 rocket, the first man ... It would take until 1978 before a German citizen reached space aboard a Soviet rocket, and to this day, no orbital ...

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.

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 ...