During the chaos of World War II, Nazi Germany unveiled the V-2 Rocket, the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. Developed by Wernher von Braun, it was a feat of engineering wrapped in ...

would form the basis of rocket design that we still follow today. Around the half way mark of the book, Dornberger starts moving away from the technical aspects of developing the V-2, and on to ...

von Braun had become a member of the Nazi Party and was the technical chief of the rocket-development facility at Peenemünde on the Baltic Coast. There he oversaw the design of the V-2 ...

The Soviet Union also captured V-2 hardware and production facilities, which subsequently influenced the design of their early rocket designs as well. In many ways, the V-2 rocket was the spark ...

As flightworthy V-2 missiles started rolling off the restored ... Korolev was trying to push his own rocket design through the bureaucracy at NII-88. In many ways his R-2 paralleled the Germans ...

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.