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Michael J. Neufeld

Michael J. Neufeld is curator for rockets and missiles in the National Air and Space Museum’s Space History Department, and is the author of The Rocket and the Reich (1995) and Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (2007), among other works.

An early V-2 rises into the sky over White Sands, New Mexico.

The First Launch of a V-2 Rocket From America

Captured German missiles took flight from the New Mexico desert in the early years after World War II.