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(Courtesy of the National Air and Space Museum)
V-2 Rocket
Gallery 114
Perhaps no other artifact so elegantly captures the social, political, and military origins of spaceflight than the V-2. It was not built as a space rocket—Nazi Germany built it as a revolutionary weapons system, the world's first ballistic missile.
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