The Fi 103R Reichenberg was a chilling product of Nazi desperation—a manned version of the V1 missile designed to be flown by suicide pilots. Based on crude modifications, it was launched from a ...

Rico’s grandfather was Robert Lusser, the engineer who developed the first-ever cruise missile-- except he didn’t build it for the United States, but Nazi Germany. The V1 Flying Bomb, as it ...

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.

While Germany's V-2 rocket was a terrifying weapon used during World War II, it also ushered in what eventually became the Space Race.

After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space programs—including some who had been active in the Third Reich.