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 ...

V2X (VVX) was awarded a new $100M contract to support the U.S. Navy’s Aegis Ashore facilities in Poland. These facilities are a crucial ...

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 ...