Australian Science Illustrated — Issue 54 2017

46 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED

As a black and white rocket lifts

off from Earth on 3 October 1942, the

world changes for good. The post-

war conquest of space could not

have happened without the Nazi

knowhow of the V-2's engine

technology and aerodynamics.

FROM WORLD

AT WAR,

TO MAN ON

THE MOON

Do We Owe the Space

Race to the V-2 Rocket?

THE FIRST SPACE ROCKET WAS

POWERFUL, STREAMLINED,

AND UNPRECEDENTEDLY

STABLE. THE "FATHER" OF

GENERATIONS OF ROCKETS

HAD BEEN BORN.

V-2

SPACE ROCKETS

JUPITER-C

EXPLORER 1