A test rocket aimed at kick-starting satellite launches from Europe fell to the ground and exploded 40 seconds after its launch from a Norwegian space port. The uncrewed Spectrum rocket was described ...
Seven years ago, three classmates at the Technical University of Munich believed their student engineering project might hold some promise in the private sector. At the time, Daniel Metzler led a team ...
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The V2 rocket’s forgotten spaceflight, how Nazi Germany reached the edge of space in June 1944
In June 1944, a V2 test launch climbed to 108.5 miles, making Nazi Germany’s rocket arguably the first human-made object to reach space. This is the unsettling origin story of the space age, from ...
On Oct. 3, 1942, Germany did the first-ever successful test launch of a ballistic missile. This missile was officially named Aggregat 4 (A4) but more commonly known as the V-2. The V-2 was designed by ...
This War Department bulletin from 1947 shows captured German V-2 Rockets being tested at White Sands, New Mexico. German scientist Wernher von Braun designed and helped develop this "vengeance" weapon ...
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