Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple template since the development of the German V-2 rocket in the middle of World War 2. Propellant and oxidizer are mixed in a ...

But the V-2 wasn’t the only rocket-powered ... and to this day, no orbital rocket has ever launched from German soil.

The rocket was introduced by the Germans in 1944 and was 14m long A German V2 rocket from World War II has been found nose down in the mud flats at Harwich Harbour in the east coast of England.

He was the brother of Wernher, the German inventor of V-2 rockets. This encounter would begin the surrender of the famed rocket man Wernher von Braun, along with more than 100 of his scientist ...

The original Soviet-era missiles performed poorly in accuracy tests, but Iraqi modifications made them far worse.

The first photograph of our planet taken from outer space dates back to 1946 when the Americans used a captured German V2 rocket from World War II. At the end of the Second World War, the United ...

A survivor of one of the last deadly German V2 rocket attack on the UK is appealing to residents of  his former home to join ...