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.

How did we go from a 12-second flight at Kill Devil Hills to rockets breaching the atmosphere? This is the story of humanity’s leap into aerospace innovation. Drake’s history-making Wireless ...

A previous post discussed the creation of the V-2 rocket, the first man-made object to reach space.Designed and built at the Peenemünde Army Research Center during World War II, the V-2 was ...

Hazy Center is now completing its counterpart, the V-1 cruise missile, which will be displayed in the Jay I. Kislak World War II in the Air gallery, set to open in 2026.

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V2X has landed a $100 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy to provide support services to its Aegis Ashore ...

By 1942 they had successfully test-launched a flying bomb (the V-1) and a supersonic missile (the V-2). Hitler believed these ‘vengeance’ weapons would win him the war. Aerial intelligence ...

Are you aware that the first rocket that made it to space was actually built for war? The German V-2 A4 rocket, launched off the Baltic coast, achieved an altitude of almost 190 km – high above ...

On October 24, 1946, the camera was launched aboard a V-2 missile from the White Sands Missile Range in the United States, marking the official crossing of the Kármán line, the boundary between ...

RTX Corporation’s RTX unit, Raytheon, recently secured a $75.1 million modification contract to provide engineering and technical support for Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) and Standard Missile-6 (SM ...