V-2 rocket

Feb 25, 1942 – Sep 19, 1952

The V2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 2'), with the technical name Aggregat-4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance weapon" and assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings of German cities. The V2 rocket also became the first artificial object to travel into space by crossing the Kármán line (edge of space) with the vertical launch of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944.

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Feb 25, 1942

The first A-4 flight-test model was completed. Later after series of prototypes went to war as the V2.

Jun 20, 1944

First spaceflight in history

May 10, 1946

First space research flight (cosmic radiation experiments)

Oct 24, 1946

First pictures of Earth from 105 km (65 mi)

Feb 20, 1947

First animals in space (fruit flies)

Jun 14, 1949

First mammal in space (Albert II, a rhesus monkey). First primate in space.

Sep 19, 1952

Last launch of captured V-2 rocket in the United States

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V-2 rocket

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