I was searching for something else and found that the entire world’s rockets into space programs from 1946 to 1951 was only captured V-2s. That’s all that went up in those years. The Russians and us launched several dozen back then, even England sent up a couple.
“I was searching for something else and found that the entire world’s rockets into space programs from 1946 to 1951 was only captured V-2s. That’s all that went up in those years. The Russians and us launched several dozen back then, even England sent up a couple.”
Your source was wrong. The U.S. hade American, German, and hybrid American-German designs for high altitude research and military rocket-missiles in the period of 1943 to 1951. See for some examples:
JPL (GALCIT) Private
JPL RTV-G-1/RV-A-1 WAC Corporal
JPL/Firestone SSM-A-17/M2/MGM-5 Corporal
Aerobee and Aerojet General RM-84/PWN-2 Aerobee-Hi
Consolidated-Vultee project MX-774 and Convair RTV-A-2 Hiroc
Martin RTV-N-12 Viking
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app1/index.html