The item is part of the carbon steering vane from a V2 rocket, launched by Germany against Britain during World War 2. The significance of the item is that it is quite possibly from the last V2 ...

On October 24, 1946, the V2 rocket became the first human-made object to reach outer space, reaching an altitude of about 65 miles. Onboard was a 35 mm camera that captured the first images of Earth.

This story has been changed to clarify that it is the world's largest single-segment solid rocket. China says it fired up the world’s largest single-segment solid-fuel rocket engine for the ...