Generally considered the father of the US space program, and the mind behind Germany’s rocket development in World War II, Wernher von Braun is naturally featured quite prominently in V-2.

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 ...

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.

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 War II. At the end of the Second World War, the United ...

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.

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