Collier's family past includes Peenemunde and the V-2 rocket, remnants of Hitler's Germany ... The group visited Test Stand VII, the site of the first successful launch into space of the A-4 ...

Still, he supported the research, which ultimately gobbled up tremendous Nazi resources. This photo shows a V-2 rocket launched from Test Stand VII in the summer of 1943. During the aftermath of World ...

Walter Dornberger (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1980-009-33 / CC-BY-SA 3.0) This is the world in which V-2, written by the head of the German rocket development program Walter Dornberger, takes place.