Launched by the US because they grabbed a load of them, and the engineers as the spoils of war.
A 35mm film camera fitted in between the fuel tanks of a V-2 rocket shot the image. German engineers, headed by Wernher von Braun helped to launch it from White Sands Missile Range, thereby inaugurating the space race as well as the related experimental sciences. In 1960 von Braun and his team were absorbed into NASA.
There is some great footage of these early launches in the BBC Documentary The Planets from 1999 (they remade it a couple of years ago but left all this stuff out unfortunately).
1000+ German scientists helped USA to the moon. 📎
I grew up with the idea that Germany made everything better.
“Hans vat do ve do vit all of zese unused rockets?”
How come the Germans are so good at science.
All Nazis should hang
Good luck in this thread, mods.
This is why German technology is the best in the world.
To the allies, Nazis were good when they could be put to use.
Germans did it Americans stole it
It is round.
Damn, 75?!
Guys, why is this getting all political, now? Rockets, like many other technologies, can be used for good and evil and of course von Braun was a questionable character, as he was member of the SS and ignored the suffering and dying of many forced labourers. He was an opportunist during a nasty part of history, but he was also a world class scientist. Should he have been prosecuted for his acts? Yes, absolutely. Is this photo an amazing testimony of the achievements of humankind? Also yes. Reality is multi-layered, get used to it…
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Launched by the US because they grabbed a load of them, and the engineers as the spoils of war.
A 35mm film camera fitted in between the fuel tanks of a V-2 rocket shot the image. German engineers, headed by Wernher von Braun helped to launch it from White Sands Missile Range, thereby inaugurating the space race as well as the related experimental sciences. In 1960 von Braun and his team were absorbed into NASA.
There is some great footage of these early launches in the BBC Documentary The Planets from 1999 (they remade it a couple of years ago but left all this stuff out unfortunately).
1000+ German scientists helped USA to the moon. 📎
I grew up with the idea that Germany made everything better.
This didn’t disappoint.
[In 1948 they would make it to the Moon](https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/a1a7ca1c228a64d06b0d3b35e98f7a2b?width=650)
That’s no earth . That’s the death star
The picture is flat. I knew it!
>’Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
>
>That’s not my department’, says Wernher von Braun.
As Tom Lehrer put it.
idk man looks kinda flat. /s
Huh I didn’t know about that. Almost as impressive as [the first Germans on the moon](https://youtu.be/6DVDH02gCN8&t=20) !
“Hans vat do ve do vit all of zese unused rockets?”
How come the Germans are so good at science.
All Nazis should hang
Good luck in this thread, mods.
This is why German technology is the best in the world.
To the allies, Nazis were good when they could be put to use.
Germans did it Americans stole it
It is round.
Damn, 75?!
Guys, why is this getting all political, now? Rockets, like many other technologies, can be used for good and evil and of course von Braun was a questionable character, as he was member of the SS and ignored the suffering and dying of many forced labourers. He was an opportunist during a nasty part of history, but he was also a world class scientist. Should he have been prosecuted for his acts? Yes, absolutely. Is this photo an amazing testimony of the achievements of humankind? Also yes. Reality is multi-layered, get used to it…
And they say germany is bad