Wernher von Braun was extremely important to NASA.
“Our Germans are better than their Germans.”
Goddard saw a V2 after the war and pointed out how it was stolen from his designs. Von Braun said Goddard saved them years of research.
Von Braun is a mixed bag, rockets would have happened about the same way with or without him.
And Goddard wasn’t tainted.
Hell, without von Braun, no man on he moon. He invented the space ship.
Yes, he was. I cant see without the Nazis we made deals with to move stateside after the war, we would have beaten the Russkies.