Peenemünde

High school (ages 12+)
Transportation

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1. When was Peenemünde built?The Army Research Center (Heeresversuchsanstalt) was established in the 1930s
2. What is the location?Municipality on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom, Vorpommern-Greifswald district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
3. What is the primary development?The V-2 rocket (Aggregat 4), the world's first large-scale liquid-propellant ballistic missile
4. What is Peenemünde and why is it important?Peenemünde is a place on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom in Germany where the first big rockets were built. It helped create the V‑2 rocket, the first large liquid‑fuel missile.
5. Who built the V‑2 rocket at Peenemünde?German engineers led by Walter Dornberger and Wernher von Braun built the V‑2 rocket there.

Liquid-propellant ballistic missile: A missile that uses liquid fuels and oxidizers for propulsion and follows a trajectory determined by gravity after initial thrust.