The Royal Navy dive team carefully excavated the muck from around the lowest section of a V-2 rocket—German terror of the British skies in World War II—in the mudflats of the River Stour.

Object Details Manufacturer Unknown Summary This is a single model rocket motor. It is made of pasteboard and contains non-explosive propellant. The motor is used only once to power a model rocket. An ...

A modifed commercial movie camera atop a captured German V-2 rocket soared 65 miles above the New Mexico desert recording 200,000 ...

A memorial stone has been unveiled to honour victims of a Nazi German V-2 rocket attack during World War Two. On 20 January 1945, a ballistic missile hit Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, killing 21 ...

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.

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 the German technology and expertise they had captured at 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. V ...

Launch of a German V-2 rocket, dated October 3, 1942. IN THE CLOSING WEEKS OF WORLD WAR II, AS ALLIED TROOPS RUMBLED INTO GERMAN TOWNS and the victors jockeyed to divide the spoils, one prize ...

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 ...

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.