As World War II drew to a close, the Allies were eager to get their hands on one of the most technologically amazing yet ...

A previous post discussed the creation of the V-2 rocket, the first man-made object to reach space.Designed and built at the Peenemünde Army Research Center during World War II, the V-2 was ...

he makes it clear that the development of the V-2 rocket was not the accomplishment of any one man. Like any good leader, Dornberger acknowledges the contributions of each and every member of the ...

There are no customer satellites aboard the first Spectrum test flight. The rocket will climb into a polar orbit from Andøya ...

England wasn’t the only target. “There were actually more V-2 rockets fired at Belgium than at England,” says Michael Neufeld, curator of the V-2 on view at the National Air and Space Museum ...

A German rocket which was described as the largest the country has made since the Nazi-era V-2 has exploded just 40 seconds after launching from a Norwegian space port. The unmanned Spectrum ...

V-2 rockets launched from White Sands, New Mexico in the 1940s and returned the first photos of Earth from space. The rockets were launched on a suborbital trajectory.

MOSCOW, April 9. /TASS/. A Russian Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with a Soyuz MS-16 manned spacecraft blasted off from the Baikonur spaceport towards the International Space Station, according to a ...

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.