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War in Space with Tim Marshall

Warfare

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The History of the V2 Rocket

V2 rocket was the first human-made object to leave Earth's atmosphere. Its creator, Wernher von Braun, is one of the great forgotten giants of history. He worked out the precise ratio of how fast for how long to break the atmosphere. The V2 went over a hundred miles up into the air and broke that threshold.

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