To: Talisker; Admin Moderator
When you read history there are different opinions about the facts. von Braun and his rocket scientists and technicians surrendered to the allied and were not charged with war crimes. They were brought to the United States and worked with the Army to develop the military rockets that the US wanted, needed and developed.
Eisenhower and LBJ formed NASA and von Braun and his rocket engineers took us from Explorer 1 to the Moon.
I am a member of the National Space Society that was formed by von Braun and Dr Gerald O'Neil whose book the High Frontier forms the basis for us to proceed Ad Astra!
Believe what you will but don't "seig heil me"
27 posted on
07/09/2010 6:07:48 PM PDT by
Young Werther
("Quae cum ita sunt" Since these things are so!)
To: Young Werther; Gandalf_The_Gray
There’s an anecdote about Von Braun, from after a successful V2 test, maybe the first one. Someone asked him if he’d rather be going to the Moon. “Of course we’re going to the Moon, we just haven’t told Der Fuhrer.”
31 posted on
07/09/2010 9:45:19 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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