This video explores Operation Backfire, the British mission to study captured V2 rockets and interrogate the scientists ...

The Vergeltungswaffe, or Retribution Weapon V2, was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile. And it was made by ...

What is the connection between a secret concentration camp built deep inside a German mountain and NASA's race to the moon in ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Fresh questions are emerging over Rocket Lab’s proposed acquisition of German laser communications firm Mynaric as Europe doubles down on its push for domestic space and ...

SpaceX sent its Starship V2 prototype out with a glorious, and for once, non-explosive bang on October 13. The successful test flight marked the final mission for the V2 configuration, closing a ...

On Sept. 6, 1947, a rocket launched from an aircraft carrier for the first time. The V-2 missile was captured from a German manufacturing site by the Allied forces at the end of World War Two. V-2s ...

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 ...

German inflation unexpectedly eased this month, matching the European Central Bank’s goal for the first time in almost a year. Consumer prices increased 2% from a year ago, down from 2.1% in May, ...

In 1944, German rocket scientists developed the world’s first guided missiles and used them against Belgium, France and England. Those scientists surrendered to U.S. forces on May 2, 1945 — 80 years ...

(CNN) — A German start-up’s orbital rocket spun out and crashed seconds after take-off Sunday, in a rare European test flight that the makers said “met its set goals.” The flight, from a spaceport in ...