The V-2, designated Vergeltungswaffe Zwei, achieved its first successful test launch on October 3, 1942, from Peenemunde, Germany, reaching an altitude of 97 kilometers and traveling 190 kilometers in ...
SHEBOYGAN — The Soviet Union could have been the first to step foot on the moon if Sheboygan's Fred Schneikert wasn't on guard duty to accept the surrender of a group of German scientists in the ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel (V-2 Panel) oversaw aspects of a long series of experiments conducted after World War II utilizing ...
The German V-2 rocket was not a real guided missile. Its control apparatus was set before firing. If the rocket went in the wrong direction, all that could be done was to cut off the fuel supply (by ...
Tomorrow’s pushbutton war got its first full-dress showing last week at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. On a dusty desert flat, surrounded by Salvador Dali mountains, hundreds of newsmen, ...
As World War II drew to a close, the Allies were eager to get their hands on one of the most technologically amazing yet terrifying weapons in Nazi Germany’s armamentarium: the V-2 rocket. A ...
However, chemical rockets have reached the theoretical limits of their capabilities. In fact, they already did so when the first German V-2 rocket reached space in 1942. Since then all the advances ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This receiver is an unflown example ...
This War Department bulletin from 1947 shows captured German V-2 Rockets being tested at White Sands, New Mexico. German scientist Wernher von Braun designed and helped develop this "vengeance" weapon ...