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“A marvel of good ol’ American can do.”

It was Werner Von Braun, who was probably an ex Nazi.

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Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882-August 10, 1945) was an American physicist and inventor who is known as the father of modern rocketry. In 1907, Goddard proved that a rocket's thrust can propel it in a vacuum. In 1914, Goddard received two U.S. patents: for liquid-fueled rockets and for two- to three-stage rockets that use solid fuel. Goddard's many inventions were the basis upon which modern rocketry is based.

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In 1929, Goddard launched the first scientific payload (a barometer and a camera) aboard a rocket flight.

Meanwhile in Germany, the German Rocket Society was formed in 1927, and the German Army began a rocket program in 1931. In the USA, Goddard received almost no support from the US government, which did not yet understand the importance of rocketry. The German government paid much more attention to Goddard's work than the US government did.

[chessplayer]

“A marvel of good ol’ American can do.”

It was Werner Von Braun, who was probably an ex Nazi.

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Not probably,,,he WAS a NAZI, and proud of it. As far as I know, he never recanted NAZI’ism. He was a Sturmbannfuhrer (major) of the SS, and personally picked slave workers from Buchenwald to work on the V-2 program. French prisoners have said he ordered beatings of the workers and enjoyed watching the beatings. Everything he did in the field of rocketry was built on the work of Robert Goddard, an American. Sick and tired of that smirking, sneering, NAZI piece of crap getting all the credit for the US space program. Goddard is the father of our space program, not von Braun.