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.

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

The Scud missile system is actually a direct descendant of the old German V-2 rocket that terrorized London in the last part of the Second World War. Rocket science and the scientists who created ...

Man-made meteorites will be carried aloft in an Army version of the German V-2 rockets, it was announced by Dr. Fred L. Whipple, of the Harvard College Observatory today. These rockets will be ...

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.

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Maria von Braun, widow of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and a prominent figure in America's early space ...

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

The crew of a Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS - MARS II) of the German armed forces Bundeswehr is pictured at the military ground in Ostenholz, Germany, on Oct. 17, 2022. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP ...