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| title | chunk | source | category | tags | date_saved | instance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V-2 rocket | 10/10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket | reference | science, encyclopedia | 2026-05-05T13:12:26.817016+00:00 | kb-cron |
One engine at the Stafford Air & Space Museum in Weatherford, Oklahoma. One engine at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Two engines at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (one was transferred from United States Army Ordnance Museum in Aberdeen, Maryland in about 2005 when the museum closed). Combustion chambers and other components plus a U.S. built engine at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Dulles, Virginia. One engine at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. One rocket body at Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, New Jersey. One engine in the Auburn University Engineering Laboratory. One engine in the Exhibit Hall adjacent to the Blockhouse building on the Historic Cape Canaveral Tour in Cape Canaveral, Florida. One engine at Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology in St. Louis, Missouri. One engine and tail section at New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
== See also == V-1 flying bomb V-3 cannon
Gravity's Rainbow – 1973 novel by Thomas Pynchon Wasserfall – German surface-to-air missile Rheinbote – German short range ballistic rocket
== Notes ==
== References ==
== Further reading == Dungan, Tracy D. (2005). V-2: A Combat History of the First Ballistic Missile. Westholme Publishing. ISBN 1-59416-012-0. Hall, Charlie (2022). 'Flying Gas Mains': Rumour, Secrecy, and Morale during the V-2 Bombardment of Britain', Twentieth Century British History, 33:1, pp. 52–79. Huzel, Dieter K. (ca. 1965). Peenemünde to Canaveral. Prentice Hall Inc. Piszkiewicz, Dennis (1995). The Nazi Rocketeers: Dreams of Space and Crimes of War. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. ISBN 0-275-95217-7. Schmundt-Thomas, Georg (2026), "Bottleneck: the supply of liquid oxygen for the German V-2 rocket." Journal of Military History, No. 90 Vol. 1, 86-113.
== External links ==
"The German A4 Rocket (Main Title)" Information Film of Operation Backfire from IWM '"Chute Saves Rockets Secrets", September 1947, Popular Science article on US use of V-2 for scientific research "Reconstruction, restoration & refurbishment of a V-2 rocket". NASA. Retrieved 14 February 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link), spherical panoramas of the process and milestones. Hermann Ludewig Collection, The University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections Files of Hermann Ludewig, Deputy of Design Chief and later Chief of Acceptance and Inspection on the V-2 program German footage of V-2 launch tests German footage of V-2 operational transport and launch procedure