He said the 84-year-old scientist's return would force the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, which seeks war criminals, to prove that the scientist mistreated slave laborers at a rocket factory.

Heinkel and Messerschmitt (Heinkel-Sud facilities, and other aeroplane factories, also a V-2 rocket factory)

He proposed an auction, and negotiations became serious in 1992, when he was invited to visit rocket factories in Russia.

In 1861, he supervised the construction of a rocket factory in Nikolayev, which he would head six years later.

The next day we visited my rocket factory.

Its president staged a high-profile meeting with Mr. Kuchma on Monday at the rocket factory, now converted to build civilian boosters, where Mr. Kuchma began his career.

From February 29 to March 1, Israel mostly carried out airstrikes at ammo warehouses, rocket factories, rocket warehouses and launching cells, combined with small incursions close to the border.

In 1954 the Soviet government transformed the initially intended car producer Yuzhmash (Dnipropetrovsk) into a rocket factory.

The former head of Ukraine's biggest rocket factory, Mr. Kuchma, 55, was elected in July.