While Germany's V-2 rocket was a terrifying weapon used during World War II, it also ushered in what eventually became the Space Race.

Workers spend an afternoon piecing together a massive Mittelwerk GmbH V-2 Nazi rocket Monday, May 20, 2013, at the Flying Heritage Collection in Everett. The rocket is one of 16 remaining in the ...

An early V-2 rises into the sky over White Sands, New Mexico. 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 ...

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The assembled rocket wears the black-and-white paint used on test missiles at Peenemünde instead of the camouflage colors used when the V-2 was deployed on mobile launchers.

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The V-2 rocket Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is selling some of his abstract art, and buying a historic rocket. The eclectic Seattle billionaire has procured a rare Werner von Braun designed V-2 ...

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 ...

John Clarke was six years old when the first V-2 rocket to hit London landed outside his house in Chiswick in the west of the capital. "The best way of describing it is television with the sound off.

A test rocket aimed at kick-starting satellite launches from Europe fell to the ground and exploded 40 seconds after its launch from a Norwegian space port.