The remains of a V2 rocket fired by Nazi Germany at London during World War II have been unearthed in a field in the southeast of England, where it crashed and exploded before reaching its target.

Launched from mobile units, each V2 rocket was 14 metres (46ft) high and carried a ton (900 kg) of explosives. The first attack on London, on 8 September 1944, gouged a crater 10m (32ft) across ...

Some V2 rocket parts are now known to have been made in Czechoslovakia and a single factory in Austria. It's said each rocket would have needed 30 tonnes of potatoes to make the alcohol necessary ...

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the first successful flight of the German V2 rocket - a ballistic missile that ended up being the first human-made craft to fly into space. Happy birthday, Nazi ...

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But Nazi Germany soon attacked London with the next "retaliation weapon," also known as a v-weapon: the V2 rocket. "The first V1 was launched on the 13th of June … ...

A team of archaeologists are preparing to uncover a bit of history from the Second World War - and you can watch them in action. On November 6, 1944, a German V2 rocket came down in a field in ...

German birthplace of Nazis’ V2 rocket embraces far-right Tiny town of Peenemuende, population 250, has no refugees, but plurality of residents voting for anti-migrant Alternative for Germany ...

Seventy-five years ago today, humankind saw the launch of its first artificial object into outer space. No, not Sputnik, but an ignominious Nazi A-4/V2 rocket launched June 20, 1944, from what was ...

"V2 Rocket" – Discover how scientists like Werner von Braun developed the first long-range rockets in top-secret Nazi research labs. (Also Fri. 8/28 at 3 a.m.; Sun. 8/30 at 3 p.m.) Arizona PBS ...

In the years following World War II, an audacious British plan would have used Nazi rockets to put a man in space. Richard Hollingham discovers how ahead of its time the plan was.

This week marks the 70th anniversary of the first V2 rocket attack on London. As our space correspondent Richard Hollingham discovers, the legacy of the missile lives on in today’s spacecraft ...