How did we go from a 12-second flight at Kill Devil Hills to rockets breaching the atmosphere? This is the story of humanity’s leap into aerospace innovation.

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.

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By 1943, the V-2 missile could climb to an altitude of up to 80 km and Heylandt "worked on increasing the flight altitude to 120 km for a possibility to bombard the United States from the ...

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 ...

They were able to achieve this by launching a V-2 missile carrying a 35-millimeter motion picture camera into space. The camera was protected in a steel case, which allowed it to survive when the ...

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By 1942 they had successfully test-launched a flying bomb (the V-1) and a supersonic missile (the V-2). Hitler believed these ‘vengeance’ weapons would win him the war. Aerial intelligence ...

A survivor of one of the last deadly German V2 rocket attack on the UK is appealing to residents of  his former home to join ...