"many of these ideas came from German scientists brought to the US after WWII. I was looking at some of the captured German designs for aircraft, and we are still using them in the most recent designs"
We won the space race because our German scientists were better than the Soviets German scientists.....
Uh. Wright, Curtiss, Martin, Douglas, Loughead, Boeing, Hughes, etc etc....were better than the German and Soviet scientists....