But the V-2 wasn’t the only rocket-powered ... and to this day, no orbital rocket has ever launched from German soil.

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.

In fact, they already did so when the first German V-2 rocket reached space in 1942. Since then all the advances have been in making rockets larger and more efficient through innovations ...

A survivor of one of the last deadly German V2 rocket attacks on London during the Second World War is organising a ...

On October 24, 1946, the V2 rocket became the first human-made object to reach outer space, reaching an altitude of about 65 miles. Onboard was a 35 mm camera that captured the first images of Earth.

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 ...

German officials want more interchangeable launcher-missile combinations, which could cut into Lockheed Martin's hold on the ...

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 ...