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    managed to send exact drawings of the V-2 rocket to the American Office of Strategic Services. Location sketches of V-rocket manufacturing facilities, such as...
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    German V-2 rockets captured by the United States Army at the end of World War II were used as sounding rockets to carry scientific instruments into the...
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    Saturn V is a retired American super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by NASA under the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon. The rocket was...
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  • V-2 rocket facilities may refer to: V-2 rocket facilities of World War II used by Nazi Germany Krupp artillery range used for the post-war British Operation...
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    A rocket (from Italian: rocchetto, lit. ''bobbin/spool'', and so named for its shape) is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using...
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    The V-2 No. 13 was a modified V-2 rocket that became the first object to take a photograph of the Earth from outer space. Launched on 24 October 1946,...
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  • V2 (redirect from V.2)
    Look up V2 or V-2 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The V-2 rocket was a German early ballistic missile of World War II. V2 or V-2 may also refer to:...
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    rubber and oil catalysts, new designs in armored equipment, V-2 (rocket) weapons, jet and rocket propelled aircraft, naval equipment, field radios, secret...
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  • for the rocket U-boat involved an attack on New York City using newly invented V-2 rockets; Unmanned and unpowered containers with V-2 rockets inside were...
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    June 1940, a strategic bombing rationale had been advanced for the A4 (V-2 rocket) being developed at a meeting between Army Ordnance Chief Emil Leeb and...
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    V-2 rocket facilities were military installations associated with Nazi Germany's V-2 SRBM ballistic missile, including bunkers and small launch pads which...
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    Aggregat (redirect from A3 (rocket))
    by Arthur Rudolph, used a pressure-fed rocket propellant system burning ethanol and liquid oxygen, and produced 2.9 kN (660 lbf) of thrust for 16 seconds...
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    I was a rhesus macaque monkey and the first mammal launched on a rocket (V-2 Rocket "Blossom No. 3") on June 18, 1948. The launch was staged at White...
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    of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military. In particular, it features the quest undertaken...
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    Redstone was a direct descendant of the German V-2 rocket, developed primarily by a team of German rocket engineers brought to the United States after World...
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    A rocket engine uses stored rocket propellants as the reaction mass for forming a high-speed propulsive jet of fluid, usually high-temperature gas. Rocket...
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    solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel rockets powered...
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  • The list of V-2 test launches identifies World War II launches of the A4 rocket (renamed V-2 in 1944). Test launches were made at Peenemünde Test Stand...
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    It is America's longest-serving active rocket. After 87 launches, in August 2021 ULA announced that Atlas V would be retired, and all 29 remaining launches...
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    the German V-2 rocket, and was partially developed by German scientists who had worked in Peenemünde. A successor to the cancelled Super V-2, Véronique...
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    Operation Paperclip RAE Larynx Republic-Ford JB-2 SCR-584 radar V-1 flying bomb facilities V-2 rocket V-3 cannon Informational notes Vergeltungswaffe "vengeance...
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    Peenemünde Army Research Center (category German V-2 rocket facilities)
    : 85  Several German guided missiles and rockets of World War II were developed by the HVP, including the V-2 rocket. The works were attacked by the British...
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    R-1 (missile) (redirect from R-1 rocket)
    first manufactured in the Soviet Union, and closely based on the German V-2 rocket. The R-1 missile system entered into service in the Soviet Army on 28...
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    A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements...
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    SM-64 Navaho (redirect from Navaho (rocket))
    relatively short-range system, a boost-glide weapon based on a winged V-2 rocket design. Over time the requirements were repeatedly extended, both due...
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    A multistage rocket or step rocket is a launch vehicle that uses two or more rocket stages, each of which contains its own engines and propellant. A tandem...
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    A liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket uses a rocket engine burning liquid propellants. (Alternate approaches use gaseous or solid propellants.)...
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    The classical rocket equation, or ideal rocket equation is a mathematical equation that describes the motion of vehicles that follow the basic principle...
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    developed for the V-2 rocket program, including the rocket itself, which was essentially a much scaled-down version of the V-2 airframe. The rocket motor used...
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    service as the Dongfeng 1. In 1945 the Soviets captured several key A-4 (V-2) rocket production facilities, and also gained the services of some German scientists...
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