V-2 Rocket
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The world's first operational ballistic missile: the V-2
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Two months before the Nazis came to power in 1933, physics student Wernher von Braun went to work on rocket weapons for the German army. Von Braun's establishment made a breakthrough to large-scale rocket engineering. It created the world's first operational ballistic missile: the V-2.
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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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SI-944262
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