As Allied bombers devastated German cities by 1943, Hitler—now openly regretting his earlier dismissal of rocket technology—demanded weapons that could strike from hundreds of miles away. Though a ...

Wernher von Braun is remembered as the man who took humanity to the Moon. But before Apollo 11, he built rockets for Adolf Hitler. Von Braun was the chief architect of the V-2 missile — the world’s ...

Dangerous to Allied bombers as well as the ground crews that maintained it and the pilots that flew it, the tiny Me-163 had an amazing climb rate and top speed thanks to its unique rocket engine ...