Wow! Never knew the V2s went up that high!!
They were suborbital, knew that, but I’d never known about this photo until now. If the Third Reich hadn’t gotten sidetracked into that little multi-continent misunderstanding [euphemism], a German would have orbited the Earth, probably before 1950; they’d have gotten to the Moon by 1960 or 1961 (the F1 engine development happened during the Eisenhower administration, as a project to deliver Ed Teller’s huge-ass H-Bomb design, which was then superseded by smaller designs; the B-52 also resulted from that Ed Teller bomb), and been on Mars by 1970.