To the moon in 1969!?
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I mean I know about Van Braun others!? or him mainly!? Or were there others from other countriesWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: An extract, from the life of Werner von Braun!. I include it so that you realize that the way to the moon was a consequence of the nazi program which the allies uncoverED after the armistice!. Hadn′t von Braun and other scientists been included in the peace time research, this 1969 accomplishment would have taken at least another decade!. please read on and visit the site posted below!. German Army Rocket Program Adolf Hitler manipulated his way to power during the Weimar Republic and became chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933!. He then maneuvered a parliamentary coup, suspended the constitution and began rule by decree!. Still smarting from the restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I, the German army yearned to rebuild!. The treaty had forbidden Germany to have any gun, cannon, or weapon with a bore exceeding three inches!. But the Nazis saw a loophole!. The treaty did not envision rockets and made no mention of them!. So German military planners hoped to develop rockets as weapons!. German army ordnance experts then began frequent visits to the rocket field and monitored the rocket development work!. Impressed with the knowledge and scope of von Braun's imagination, they invited him to continue his research at the army's new Kummersdorf facilities!. On Oct!. 1, 1932, he officially joined the German Army Ordnance Office rocket program!. He subsequently received his doctorate in physics from the University of Berlin in 1934!. By that time, he was technical director at Kummersdorf with a staff of 80 scientists and technicians!. Rocket Development at Peenemünde The Nazis moved the rocket center to Peenemünde, on Germany's Baltic coast, in 1937 and made von Braun technical director!. When World War II began, Germany gave rocket development assumed highest priority!. Work was well under way on a rocket 46 feet long with a thrust of 55,000 pounds!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Werner von Braun was made the head of the American space agency known as NASA!. The Saturn V rocket, which lifted the Apollo spacecraft to the moon, was directly modeled on von Braun's V-2 missle!. Not so much German technology but their brilliant designs!. The 1945 Nazi German scientists also had the first stealth fighter and stealth bomber which was spirited out of Germany by the OSS and kept top secret until just recently!. But their rocket designs were directly applied to the moon mission!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Von Braun - if he had been a Dutchman he might have been called "van" :-) - was the man with the rocket technology genius which enabled the USA to get so much weight off the ground!. There were thousands of other scientists from all over the world involved in all the other aspects of the mission!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Many others, not just building rockets, but in many other areas of science!. Sad but true!. The nazis didn't invest too much time in nuclear research however (which we can all be thankful for) as Hitler considered it to be 'jewish technology' due to Einstien's part in it (or so I've read)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The allies in ww2 made a very special effort to save Peenemunde and the German rocket scientists who worked there; realizing beforehand how important German technology would be in the space race!.Www@QuestionHome@Com sadly the world today owes quite a lot to the germans[ Technology wise]!.!.!.!.i can believe i just wrote that,but there you are!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |