V-2 rocket
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The V-2 rocket (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2) was the first ballistic missile and first man-made object to achieve sub-orbital spaceflight.
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In popular culture
- Thomas Pynchon makes the V-2 rocket the central point of his post-modern novel Gravity's Rainbow.
- Rocket bombs in George Orwell's 1984 have similarities to the V-2 rocket.
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