Back in 1945, Life magazine revealed to its readers how “U.S. Army technical experts came up with the astonishing fact that German scientists had seriously planned to build a ‘sun gun’.” This, the ...

The Nazi scientists acknowledged that the project was beyond their conceivable reach for the sake of the war—speculating that it might be possible in 50 to 100 years. During the Second World War, as ...

SOMEWHERE IN GERMANY 1930s - German rocket scientists in the decade before World War II considered building an orbiting "sun gun" that could raise temperatures on the ground to almost 400 degrees ...

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what's the weirdest Nazi concept weapon of them all? The "sun gun." That seems to be the takeaway from a long-forgotten article in Life magazine's July 23, 1945 issue, ...

Father of the science of astronautics, according to its devotees, is Hermann Oberth, 59. While teaching school in Rumania in 1923, Oberth published The Rocket into Interplanetary Space, a book ...