A previous post discussed the creation of the V-2 rocket ... It would take until 1978 before a German citizen reached space aboard a Soviet rocket, and to this day, no orbital rocket has ever ...

It was four years after the Sheffield Blitz — the devastating December 1940 attacks that left thousands homeless — and the ...

The first photograph of our planet taken from outer space dates back to 1946 when the Americans used a captured German V2 rocket from World War II. At the end of the Second World War, the United ...

German launch startup Rocket Factory Augsburg has taken a step towards a first launch by gaining a first-ever license to vertically launch an orbital rocket from mainland Europe. German launch ...

The UK’s aviation regulator has granted a launch license to Germany’s Rocket Factory Augsburg AG to blast rockets into space from Scotland, paving the way for the company’s first test flight.

A German V2 rocket from World War II has been found nose down in the mud flats at Harwich Harbour in the east coast of England. Royal Navy divers said it was buried vertically with about 1.5m of ...

The activities of the West German rocket and aircraft scientists have evoked sharp and repeated criticism from Israel’s Government, and from a wide variety of Jewish and non-Jewish organizations.