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 Proving Ground in south-central New Mexico. It didn’t get very far.

The V-2 was the brainchild of Dr. Wernher von Braun, a German scientist and member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS. His work established many rocket technology advancements that ultimately ...

Wernher von Braun’s V-2 Rocket Although the Nazi “vengeance weapon” was a wartime failure, it ushered in the space age. Owen Edwards. August 2011. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!

The entire history of the A-4/V-2 rocket program is laid out in this book, from the very early days when Dornberger and his team were launching rockets with little more than matches, all the way ...

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As workers unwrapped the base of a V-2 rocket at Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection, in Everett, Monday, Military Aviation Curator Corey Graff was giddy. "Just like Christmas here, except you ...

It was May 29, 1947. Here is the El Paso Times report: El Paso and Juarez were rocked Thursday night when a runaway German V-2 rocket fired from the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico ...

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.

Had World War II not ended when it did, Nazi Germany likely would have sent more V-2 rockets hurtling toward potential victims. One of those missiles is now in Everett. The restored rocket was ...