Labels:text | weapon | missile | screenshot | rocket OCR: THE V2 ROCKET IN 1944, TOWARD THE END of World War II, a powerful new weapon was used by the Germans to attack Paris, DEVELOPING London, and Antwerp - the V2 rocket. Developed THE V2 by Wernher von Braun's team at Peenemünde in Germany, the rocket was able to carry a warhead weighing 1,000 kg (2,200 lb), a distance of 320 km (200 miles). The maximum height it attained Nose was 160 km (100 miles), making the V2 the first rocket to reach space. V2'S EXTERIOR Casing around fuel tanks V2'S INTERIOR A NEW ERA The V2 rocket symbolized Fin the beginning of the age of the space rocket. FROM MISSILES TO SPACE ROCKETS
