V2 Rocket the first man-made object in Space by Germany

At the end of the war, a race began between the United States and the USSR to retrieve as many V-2 rockets and staff as possible.

Three hundred trainloads of V-2s and parts were captured and shipped to the United States, and 126 of the principal designers, including both Wernher von Braun and Walter Dornberger were in American hands. In fact, Von Braun and his team decided to surrender to the United States military to ensure they were not captured by the advancing Soviets.

In October 1945, British Operation Backfire assembled a small number of V-2 missiles and launched three of them from a site in northern Germany. The engineers involved had already agreed to move to the US when the test firings were complete. The Backfire report remains the most extensive technical documentation of the rocket, including all support procedures, tailored vehicles and fuel composition. In his book My Father's Son, Canadian author Farley Mowat, then a member of the Canadian Army, claims to have obtained a V-2 rocket in 1945 and shipped it back to Canada, where it is alleged to have ended up in the National Exhibition grounds in Toronto.

Operation Paperclip recruited German engineers to the U.S., and Special Mission V-2 transported V-2 parts to White Sands Proving Grounds, from which programs with animals in space and the Bumper rocket were conducted.

The USSR also captured a number of V-2s and staff, letting them set up in Germany for a time. The first work contracts were signed in the middle of 1945. In 1946 they were obliged to move to Kapustin Yar in the USSR, where Groettrup headed up a group of just under 250 engineers. The first Soviet missile was the R-1, an exact copy of the V-2. Most of the German team was sent home after that project, but some remained to do research until as late as 1951. Unbeknownst to the Germans, work immediately began on larger missiles, the R-2 and R-5, based on extension of the V-2 technology.

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[railadvocate]

Any nation that wins a war(s) writes, as the victor, their version of history...another aspect of "war spoils." Any victor will logically declare itself the morally justified and superior...

[DonPMitchell]

Great footage! The Russians had worked a lot on smaller rockets and were ahead of the Germans until about 1935. But they were astounded by the V-2, they never tried to build a missle of that size. The Americans knew almost nothing about rockets and depended heavily on von Braun's team until they could train up their own (excellent) engineers. Yes, you had Goddard who was very advanced, but he was so secretive he had no impact.

[raab155]

The first "Man made object in space" was a shell from a german ultra-long range artillery gun from World War 1 known as Parisgeschütz.

[SuperYogSothoth]

@railadvocate Doesn't mean theyre always wrong in saying they were the morally justified group.

Case in point the western allies to Nazi Germany.

[marmaladekamikaze]

Wish I could understand German!

[trollolololololo]

@jasincl the first launch; the "Frau im Mond", achieved an altitude of more than 100km (100 km being the Karman line, the now established edge of space). The typical V2, when launched perpendicular to the Earth, had a service ceiling of 200km. Yes, the rocket did achieve sub-orbital flight, but sub-orbital flight means that a vehicle has reached space, but did not orbit the earth.

[jasincl]

actually the V-2 didnt go to space it went sub-orbit or something still HUGE achivment for that time

[FUKreligioN]

HEIL Werner Von Braun FUCK NAZIs

[jasincl]

@amino0o Actuallay NAPOLEON BONAPARTE!

[StormoTiger]

Fantastic video.

[tm7776]

Wernher von Braun (the creator of the V2) is a good example of how the allied forces let justice prevail after war.

[amino0o]

History is written by the victor @ Mw2