Germany's biggest rocket since the Nazi era, launched by ISAR Aerospace, exploded mid-air just seconds after takeoff in a catastrophic test failure. The uncrewed Spectrum rocket was meant to mark ...

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.

The V-2 rocket, Nazi Germany’s most advanced rocketry achievement during the war, lacked the payload capacity and range to reach the proposed 5,100-mile orbit, let alone deliver the ...