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How Nazi rocket engineering became the foundation of NASA's early space technology

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  • Many people don’t know that some of the foundational technology used by NASA during the Cold War — including the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo missions — was developed by former German scientists brought to the U.S. after WWII under Operation Paperclip.

    These engineers, including Wernher von Braun, had previously worked on the V-2 rocket program in Nazi Germany. After the war, they were recruited by the U.S. military and later NASA, contributing significantly to American missile and space programs.

    The legacy of this technological transfer raises questions about how scientific progress can intersect with ethically complex histories.

    📽️ A detailed documentary on this topic (source):
    “What if NASA’s space race was built on buried secrets — and Nazi scientists?”
    ➡️ Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY0JMjJp-yc

  • Many people don’t know that some of the foundational technology used by NASA during the Cold War — including the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo missions — was developed by former German scientists brought to the U.S. after WWII under Operation Paperclip.

    These engineers, including Wernher von Braun, had previously worked on the V-2 rocket program in Nazi Germany. After the war, they were recruited by the U.S. military and later NASA, contributing significantly to American missile and space programs.

    The legacy of this technological transfer raises questions about how scientific progress can intersect with ethically complex histories.

    📽️ A detailed documentary on this topic (source):
    “What if NASA’s space race was built on buried secrets — and Nazi scientists?”
    ➡️ Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY0JMjJp-yc

    The US has always loved their Nazis.

  • Many people don’t know that some of the foundational technology used by NASA during the Cold War — including the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo missions — was developed by former German scientists brought to the U.S. after WWII under Operation Paperclip.

    These engineers, including Wernher von Braun, had previously worked on the V-2 rocket program in Nazi Germany. After the war, they were recruited by the U.S. military and later NASA, contributing significantly to American missile and space programs.

    The legacy of this technological transfer raises questions about how scientific progress can intersect with ethically complex histories.

    📽️ A detailed documentary on this topic (source):
    “What if NASA’s space race was built on buried secrets — and Nazi scientists?”
    ➡️ Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY0JMjJp-yc

    "Science" under capitalism has always been funded and developed by/for fascists. The originals in the USA were the founding enslavers. The nazis had their time. Now it's the zios. R&D for genocide as usual.

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