Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Sept. 16, 1949, the U.S. launched a V-2 rocket with a monkey named Albert III on board. Albert III was the third monkey the U.S ...

Germany’s V-2 rocket was the first long-range guided ballistic missile ever used in warfare. Though it brought destruction ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Oct. 3, 1942, Germany did the first-ever successful test launch of a ballistic missile. This missile was officially named ...

The space age did not begin with a peaceful satellite, it began with a weapon built in underground factories by prisoners who never lived to see the sky. This is the unsettling story of the V-2 rocket ...

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 ...

Modern rocketry began 100 years ago this week, in a snowy field just south of Worcester and more than a thousand miles from the busy launch pads of Cape Canaveral. On March 16, 1926, Clark University ...

This collection is comprised mostly of administrative memoranda of the portion of the V-2 Panel which represented the Rocket-Sonde Research Section of NAR. The thirty-four files from Rocket-Sonde ...