• A V2 ballistic missile stands beneath a skylight in the Smithsonian. Its cylindrical center section tapers through ogival sections to a warhead fuse and rocket engine exhaust in the tail, which has four swept fins with air vanes on the outer tips.
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    V-2

    Developed by the German army during World War II, the V-2 influenced the work on large-scale rocketry undertaken in the United States and Soviet Union and set the stage for long-range ballistic missiles. (Smithsonian Institution) 

  • A V2 ballistic missile stands beneath a skylight in the Smithsonian. Its cylindrical center section tapers through ogival sections to a warhead fuse and rocket engine exhaust in the tail, which has four swept fins with air vanes on the outer tips.

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May 30, 2008

Photographer:

Eric Long

ID#:

2006-2099

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, National Air and Space Museum Original Photography, NASM Acc. 2012-0026

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