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Before the rockets, before the moon—it started in the middle of World War II.

Nazi Germany was building something the world had never seen before: a weapon that didn't just fly, it fell from space. Discover the true story behind the V-2 rocket, its devastating impact, and how the collapse of the Third Reich triggered a high-stakes scramble between the United States and the Soviet Union to capture the ultimate technology. Whoever controlled the rocket technology would control the future.

Watch Episode 1 now, and follow us for Episode 2 as the race intensifies!

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00:00Before the rockets, before the moon, it started in the middle of a war.
00:06World War II.
00:07Nazi Germany was building something no one had ever seen before.
00:12A weapon that didn't just fly, it fell from space.
00:16The V-2 rocket.
00:18It could travel faster than sound, strike without warning, and there was no way to stop it.
00:25But when the war ended, the weapon didn't disappear.
00:28Instead, the world's two new superpowers raced to take it.
00:34The United States and the Soviet Union.
00:37Because whoever controlled that technology would control the future.
00:42And this was just it.
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