V2 ROCKET LAUNCH Presentation by Austin Ford

 A German rocket scientist  Invented the V2 Rocket and later many more rockets  Became a rocket scientist for the U.S. as an architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle

 The rocket was developed to be a super weapon for the German military  Von Braun was head of the team that developed the rocket  The development took place in Kummersdorf where they successfully launched two rockets  Development continued at the Peenemünde facility, which contained the parts essential for the continuous development of the rocket  The rockets final development and manufacturing was finished on March

 The first successful flight was on October 1,1942 in Peenemünde  After the first launch Von Braun is quoted saying ” This third day of October, 1942, is the first of a new era of transportation, that of space travel”

 The rocket uses a combustion burner engine that burns at 2500–2700 °C to fly  The rocket is power by a mixture of water and ethanol for fuel the is uses and uses liquid oxygen for the oxidizer in the rocket.  A PIGA accelerator was the system that controlled the engine shutoff  Vertical and horizontal gyroscopes were part of the LEV-3 guidance system that controlled lateral stabilization  Four external rudders were placed on the tail fins and internal graphite vanes near the exit of the motor  One tail fin was always aligned with the target azimuth before flight and the rocket was designed with a flight curve that was parabolic.

 The rocket was used as a long range weapon for the German military in WWII  After the first rocket landed in London Von Braun said” The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.”  The weapon was later captured by the allies and used by them for testing  The rocket was used for research and development after WWII for future rocket and missile designs  The V2 rocket was used to take the first photo from space

 The rocket’s design later lead to the designs that were used for the aircraft that landed men on the moon  The scientist responsible for the rocket later would work for N.A.S.A. on spacecraft  The rocket was also responsible for the rocket designs that would be cold war and modern ICBM’s