Nazi Germany launches Peace Rocket (not war rocket.)

Consider this through an chain of events.

December 3rd, 1941 - Erich Traub, an german scientist makes an artilley system that can fire rockets.

January 15th, 1942 - Erich Traub, uses an enlarged barrel and upgraded artilley system to launch the infamous V2 in to aero-space, barely reaching outside in to space and informs Germany's Astronomy research community of his discovery.

April 20th, 1942 - The German Astronomy research community launches an V2 in to space with the systems Erich designed, inside the rockets tip is an lone nazi flag and an portrait of hitler in honor of hitler's birthday.

October 27, 1942 - Germany launches an manned rocket to outside space using an Messerschmitt 262 to carry it to 45,000 feet (with oxygen of course.) and the rocket reaches to the outside and re-entry is barely successful and the Astronaut had to be treated for very severe burns due to the re-entry and keeps an log on this but keeps it an secret and uses an double for the televised return of the rocket (which is re-staged for the cameras.)
 
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Well magic would work but applying oxygen to a turbo jet in flight is difficult but not impossible but it means carrying a lot of liquid oxygen up with you then you have the rather tickelish problem of carrying up a one shot [single stage?] rocket attached to your airframe. This is going to do things to your flight characteristics that don't bear thinking about.
Why not change your aircraft to a 177 griffin and hope you dont have an engine fire [to which they were very prone] or use the 111 siamese twin and hope the centre spar does not snap like a twig when turning [which happened]
None of these a/c have the height you require but have a better chance than a lightly built fighter.
The USA did a similar thing with heavily modified B29s after the war which is where I assume you got the idea?
As a propaganda scheme its the sort of thing Goebells would have loved but as a practicle engineering proposition I dont think that its a good use of scarce resources
 

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..Firing a V2 from any sort of gun is going to be even less successful than the Me262 thing - the rocket isn't going to be able to take those sort of strains. Rockets that get fired from gun barrels are solid fueled - very different to complex and fragile liquid fueled beasts like the V2.

But why bother? The V2 enters space on a normal flight, and the payload is 2000lb. So there is definitely room for a passenger - the tricky thing is keeping him/her alive. I suspect this would be impossible with the V2's normal nose first re-entry. Something like MOOSE might have been the simplest solution:

American manned rescue spacecraft. Study 1963. MOOSE was perhaps the most celebrated bail-out from orbit system of the early 1960's. The suited astronaut would strap the MOOSE to his back, and jump out of the spacecraft or station into free space. Pulling a ripcord would fill an inflatable heat shield with polyurethane. The astronaut would use a small hand-held gas to orient himself for retro-fire, and then fire a solid rocket motor strapped to his chest to return to earth.

The MOOSE consisted of a chest-mounted parachute, a flexible, folded 1.8 m diameter elastomeric heat shield, and a canister of polyurethane foam. Pulling the deployment cord would fill the shield into shape and encase the back of the astronaut in perfectly form-fitting polyurethane. The astronaut would use a small hand-held gas get device to orient himself for retro-fire, and then fire a solid rocket motor mounted in the device. After aligning himself for re-entry and putting the MOOSE into a slow roll, he would throw the gas gun away. After a ballistic re-entry, the astronaut would pull the ripcord of the chest-parachute, which would pull him away from the heat shield for a parachute landing.
There was also the choice of staying with the shield for a landing on land or water./ The buoyant polyurethane crushable structure would absorb the landing shock, and encased in the foam was a survival kit, SOFAR bomb, radar chaff, altitude flare, and food and water.


General Electric conducted a number of technology proving tests. A heat shield was manufactured and folded. Test subjects were foamed into place with various formulae of polyurethane (it was found necessary to add a little castor oil to the formula to allow the pilot to extract himself from the foam). In a final test the test pilot jumped six meters from a bridge in Massachusetts and successfully survived water impact and floated downstream (a competitor claimed there was a little bit of a difference between 6 m and 500 km).
The foam tests showed the heat (exceeding 100 degrees C at the core) that the foam generated during the exothermic deployment reaction was not transferred to the subject and was not uncomfortable. Tests of the ablative materials were conducted in the General Electric supersonic air arc tunnel and verified the heat of ablation of the flexible shield material. Studies of heat transfer during re-entry showed it was well within the limits that could be handled by a standard space suit backpack.

With 2000lbs to play with and no other payload the foam could possibly be replaced with cork and asbestos. The best splashdown point might be a lake in a London park - timed to coincide with one of Winston Churchill's walks there. The Nazionaut could wade ashore, buttonhole Winnie and say something like "Zee Fuhrer sez "You suck, fatboy!' Oh - und Eva, she said to say 'Hello'."
 
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So the Nazis are going to do space exploration while at war? In October 1942 while they're fighting in Stalingrad?
 
..That was the entire V2 program.

He he you are so right. Mind you didnt goebells remove thousands of soldiers from the front line to use as extras in a movie ? Barking ,howling mad:D
I was trying to let alternative history down easy a lttle more research would have been better , ;)
You want a totally ASB way to get a nazinaught up to the edge of space? try upscaling a Bacham Natter . I think its a one way ticket though
 
October 27, 1942 - Germany launches an manned rocket to outside space using an Messerschmitt 262 to carry it to 45,000 feet (with oxygen of course.) and the rocket reaches to the outside and re-entry is barely successful and the Astronaut had to be treated for very severe burns due to the re-entry and keeps an log on this but keeps it an secret and uses an double for the televised return of the rocket (which is re-staged for the cameras.)

So much wrong...I'll start here.

45,000 feet is hardly outer space. It is, in fact, far, far less than the cruising altitude of the SR-71 Blackbird. Frankly, it's not even much higher than a typical airliner flies. In fact, the Me-262's service ceiling was about 37,000 feet anyway--45,000 would have been possible by uprating the jet engines.

And several V-2s did, IOTL, pass the 100-km minimum for spaceflight.
 
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