On the damp and dreary evening of September 8, 1944, Sapper Bernard Browning hurried through western London toward the Chiswick train station. The young soldier, on military leave, was eager to see ...

This collection consists of a complete set of production blueprints for the V-2 rocket powerplant and directly related accessories. The V-2 was a short-range ballistic missile designed by Germany for ...

🚀 History of Space Travel: Kill Devil to V-2 - Early flight started as a utopian dream but quickly became the military's top priority: first as reconnaissance vehicles, and then as weapons in their ...

On Sept. 16, 1949, the U.S. launched a V-2 rocket with a monkey named Albert III on board. Albert III was the third monkey the U.S. attempted to launch to space. He was also the third one to be killed ...

This collection is comprised mostly of administrative memoranda of the portion of the V-2 Panel which represented the Rocket-Sonde Research Section of NAR. The thirty-four files from Rocket-Sonde ...