German Scientist Admits He Built ... that the Egyptians had invited him to Cairo in the spring of 1960 “to make a meteorological-sounding rocket.” In October 1961, the West German Government ...

The German company that built the orbital rocket, Isar Aerospace, headquartered in Ottobrunn, southeast of Munich, still hailed the test flight a success. Liftoff took place at 12:30 p.m. from ...

The V-2 was the brainchild of Dr. Wernher von Braun, a German scientist and member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS. His work established many rocket technology advancements that ultimately ...

One participant was German scientist Wernher von Braun. Von Braun’s crowning achievement in Germany had been the creation of the V-2 rocket , a ballistic missile that could strike long-distance ...