A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude.

V-2 rocket

German long-range ballistic missile

The V2, with the technical name Aggregat-4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance weapon" and assigned to attack Allied…