The tests of captured V-2 rockets in the USSR (1947)

SP Korolev during a meeting with the designers of missile technology before beginning the test.

V-2 rocket at the start before firing bench tests, preparing the rocket for launch.

Unsuccessful rocket firing, the fire engines of the first stage.

Installing fuse control unit on the nose of the rocket.

Encased missile prepared for launch.

Launch of the hangar is sent to the gantries.

Rockets manually moved along the rails.

Lifting crane missiles.

Pulls gun carriage for the rocket.

Installation of the rocket on the gun carriage and send it to the launch pad.

rocket delivery to the launch site.

Bringing the missiles in a vertical position.

Installation of the rocket on the launch pad.

The release of the missile body from the outer bands.

Upper collet is removed from the missile body.

General view of the launch pad.

Preparing the rocket to the vertical test, a general view of the launch pad.

Techniques climb the stairs to the bow of the rocket to install highly sensitive instruments.

Installing a particularly sensitive instrument bow of the rocket before the start of the vertical-launch tests.

Employees of the radio-telemetric monitoring system prepared following the work of the individual units of the missile in flight.

End of filling oxygen rocket.

Gas tanks leaving their start.

The panelists are closed in an armored bunker.

The operator of the remote starter, toggle switches.

Start off and rockets.

The missile in flight.

Rocket at the start of a running motor, the rocket taking off.

The missile in flight.

Transportation rocket on rails in a workshop to prepare for the tests.

SP Korolev It holds a meeting with the designers of missile technology.

Glushko VP, Kuznetsov ND, Pilyugin NA, Ryazan MS Barmin VP, Chertok and SP Korolev during the meeting.

Transportation of one of the missiles to the firing bench tests.

Installation of the rocket in a vertical position.

On the rocket put a fixing ring.

General view of the stand with a rocket attached to it.

Test participants go into a special concrete bunker.

Devices for fixing the test data set inside the hopper.

The panelists checking devices, the head commands.

General view of the equipment in the bunker.

The launch engine standing on the stand.

The launch.

Members of the State Commission monitor the rocket takes off.