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 entire history of the A-4/V-2 rocket program is laid out in this book, from the very early days when Dornberger and his team were launching rockets with little more than matches, all the way ...

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 ...

Aerial intelligence experts reveal how difficult it was to defend England from the V-2 supersonic rockets. Aerial intelligence experts reveal how it was impossible to defend England from the V-2 ...

This was the home of the Nazis’ secret missile program, which was developing deadly V1 and V2 rockets. 596 planes ... The spitfire is the most famous plane of WW2. Its groundbreaking design ...

more than 60 V-2 rockets were launched at White Sands. This included Bumper 5, which became the first U.S. rocket to fly into space on February 24, 1949. The Bumper 5 was a two-stage rocket that ...

Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple template since the development of the German V-2 rocket in the middle of World War 2. Propellant and oxidizer are mixed in a ...