Posted on 05/07/2021 5:53:11 PM PDT by algore
In the 1950s the German rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun wrote a book about a first manned voyage to Mars and, in an amazing coincidence, named the leader of the expedition “Elon”.
Destiny appears to be close to fulfilling his 1952 prediction 69 years later as billionaire SpaceX boss Elon Musk gets ever closer to his dream of establishing the first human colony on the Red Planet.
Wernher von Braun had a lifelong passion for space travel and was recruited by the Nazis in the early 1930s to lead their rocket weaponry program. He was instrumental in the develop of the V2 – one of Hitler’s so-called “revenge weapons”. The V2, the first ballistic missile, was the first artificial man-made object to travel into space.
The book was a highly technical description of a mission to Mars taking place in the 1980s. In it, von Braun speculated how the newly-colonised planet would be governed: "Once installed,” he wrote, “a Martian government was created led by ten men, whose leader was elected by universal suffrage for five years under the name or title of Elon.
“Two houses in Parliament enacted the laws that would be administered by both the Elon and his cabinet.
"The upper house was referred to as the Council of the Elders and merely named about 60 people, each of whom was named for life by the Elon as vacancies in the event of death.”
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I wonder why anyone would want anything to do with any earth govt if they had a choice
It’s not the Earth. It’s the hoomans.
One of my granddaughters will be the first President of the Free Republic of Mars (in my dreams).
SPACE FORCE
All hail the Elon!
Van Braun and his group were recruited by the German government prior to the Nazis taking over Germany.
Nazis inherited the already existing program.
“The Doo Ron Ron” would have been more cool.
btt
Von Braun is worshiped at Rocketdyne.
His designs for rocket motors are still used to this day. The only thing added is precision of manufacture and better pumps.
Also, the Saturn 5 used a Von Braun design that was scaled up.
The man was a true genius.
Unfortunately today we use a lot of Russian motors
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