The rocket was introduced by the Germans in 1944 and was 14m long A German V2 rocket from World War II has been found nose down in the mud flats at Harwich Harbour in the east coast of England.

The rocket, a reaction-propulsion device that carries all of its propellants internally, has been around for almost a millennium since its invention in China. But the twentieth-century saw a ...

The first photograph of our planet taken from outer space dates back to 1946, when the Americans utilised a captured German V2 rocket from the Second World War. At the end of World War II, the ...