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...sort of military hardware that Germany wanted. World War II put on the pressure: Peenemünde must either produce a devastating military weapon or get out of business. Peenemünde's answer was the A-4 (standing for Aggregate-4, but later named V2, for Vengeance Weapon Two, by Hitler's gang). Its first test was a dismal flop. So was the second. For Peenemünde, the third test was do or die. On Oct. 3, 1942, the A-4 soared supersonically to a history-making height of nearly 60 miles, functioned perfectly. Peenem...
...success ultimately won Hitler's personal attention, but Hitler's blessing proved only a curse. Impossible production schedules were set for the V2, driving Von Braun to the point of resigning. Nazidom's power-grabbers began fighting for control of the weapon Hitler had approved, and in February 1944, Wernher von Braun was jailed by Heinrich Himmler's black-shirted SS because he declined to connive in putting the Peenemünde project under SS control instead of army control. Only after Dornberger convinced Hitler himself that the V-2 program would collapse immediately without...
...black sedan stopped. Three German army officers stepped out, offered Von Braun military facilities to carry on his rocket work. At 20 he was chief of the entire German rocket program; at 32, working in the Nazi rocket center at Peenemünde, he built Germany's V2, which rained ruin on Britain. Caught between the advancing U.S. and Russian armies, Von Braun and his team unanimously voted to give themselves up to the West, also turned over some 2,000 tons of rocket equipment. The U.S. Army, keenly aware of the value of its prisoners, sent Von Braun...
Tomorrow the Moon. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the Army's satellite is that its success was not due to new or startling equipment. The Redstone, which has long been in production, is essentially an improved German V2. The Jupiter-C version, with its spinning bucket of small rockets, is not new, either. Neither are its internal guidance instruments, its attitude-control device or its tracking systems. Nearly everything except the satellite itself and perhaps the rocket attached to it was "off the shelf...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 6--A rocket similar to the German V2 now in American hands is capable of shooting a man to the 186-mile height reportedly achieved by the Russians, a scientist said tonight...