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But the V-2 wasn’t the only rocket-powered vehicle that the Germans were working on, a whole series of follow-up vehicles were in the design phase when the Allies took Berlin in 1945. Some were ...

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 ... National Air and Space Museum, emphasizes that ...

and rocket engines from small thrusters to a gigantic F-1 motor from the Saturn V Moon rocket. National Air and Space Museum Rocket, Liquid Fuel, R.H. Goddard 1935, A-Series National Air and Space ...

Are you aware that the first rocket that made it to space was actually built for war? The German V-2 A4 rocket, launched off the Baltic coast, achieved an altitude of almost 190 km – high above ...