But the V-2 wasn’t the only rocket-powered ... and to this day, no orbital rocket has ever launched from German soil.

Walter Dornberger (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1980-009-33 / CC-BY-SA 3.0) This is the world in which V-2, written by the head of the German rocket development program Walter Dornberger, takes place.

The original Soviet-era missiles performed poorly in accuracy tests, but Iraqi modifications made them far worse.

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 ...

He was the brother of Wernher, the German inventor of V-2 rockets. This encounter would begin the surrender of the famed rocket man Wernher von Braun, along with more than 100 of his scientist ...

The rocket was introduced by the Germans in 1944 and was 14m long 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 ...

In fact, they already did so when the first German V-2 rocket reached space in 1942. Since then all the advances have been in making rockets larger and more efficient through innovations ...

A survivor of one of the last deadly German V2 rocket attack on the UK is appealing to residents of  his former home to join ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Maria von Braun, widow of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and a prominent figure in America's early space ...

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.