Wasn’t Lindbergh a nazi supporter?
Lindbergh was also the Great Grand Uncle of the the US Space Program.
When he returned from France after his flight he was the Toast of the Town and attended many socialite parties. At one party he met his future wife. At another party the Googenheim's took him aside and offered him money for his accomplishment. He said no thanks but you might want to provide support to this nutty Science teacher in Massachusettes who is working on rockets and annoying his neighbors. The Googenheims provided a $50,000 grant to Goddard who took his experimental liquid fueled rockets to GASP Roswell New Mexico where he developed his rockets. A German Rocket enthusiast by the name of von Braun would learn from Goddard's papers and thus the V-2 was born.
after the war von Braun would bring his skills to the US and when Kennedy set the goal of a lunar landing von Braun would ask his friend LBJ to ask JFK to award a Presidential medal to Goddard for his works. von braun would build the Saturn family of rockets and July 20 1969 will go down in history.
On his deathbed a reporter would ask Lindbergh what his felt was the most exciting experience of his lifetime. Mind you he had worked with DeBakey on the artificial heart, was a war hero in the South Pacific and many other accomplishments. He told the reporter that the most exciting moment in his life was seeing an Eagle land on the Moon!
Actually he initially spoke kindly toward the organizational abilities of the Nazi party and the improvements to life in Germany under their control. Later he started backing up on this as more information came out. Evenutally The Army Air Corps asked him to speak out positively and then get invivted to Germany. He went to Germany and Goering showed him lots of Germany's new aircraft and even let him fly some. Lindbergh briefed the Air Corps on everything that he saw. During WWII, Lidnbergh worked with the Air Corps in the Pacific area since the Air Corps did not want him to ever be captured by the Germans. His anti-Nazi beliefs were never played up in the press like his pro-Nazi statements.