At 2:47 on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 16, 1946, a captured Nazi V-2 missile ascended from the U.S. Army’s new White Sands Proving Ground in south-central New Mexico. It didn’t get very far.

The V-2 was the brainchild of Dr. Wernher von Braun, a German scientist and member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS. His work established many rocket technology advancements that ultimately ...

For a March 15, 1946 German V-2 rocket demonstration, Lt. Col. Harold Turner, first commander of White Sands Proving Ground, invited 500 military personnel and 100 Las Cruces community leaders to ...

V-2 rocket launched from New Mexico in 1948 captured first photo of Earth from space. ... V-2 rockets taken from Nazi Germany after World War 2 were fired from White Sands Missile Range.

It was May 29, 1947. Here is the El Paso Times report: El Paso and Juarez were rocked Thursday night when a runaway German V-2 rocket fired from the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico ...

The V-2 rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. It carried a 35-millimeter motion picture camera that captured a new frame every second and a half.

As workers unwrapped the base of a V-2 rocket at Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection, in Everett, Monday, Military Aviation Curator Corey Graff was giddy. "Just like Christmas here, except you ...

There he oversaw the design of the V-2, the first long-range ballistic missile developed for warfare. The “V” in V-2 stood for Vergeltungswaffe (vengeance weapon).

Had World War II not ended when it did, Nazi Germany likely would have sent more V-2 rockets hurtling toward potential victims. One of those missiles is now in Everett. The restored rocket was ...

The V-2 was a small rocket by modern standards. A little more than 45 feet from nose to fins, five-and-a-half feet in diameter, and weighed about 27,000 pounds, ...

V-2 rocket launched from New Mexico in 1948 captured first photo of Earth from space by: Jordan Honeycutt. Posted: Oct 24, 2024 / 10:35 PM MDT. Updated: Oct 25, 2024 / 08:29 AM MDT.