Posted on 05/29/2014 4:27:52 PM PDT by Olog-hai
To his credit—Von Braun did feed his prisoners better in the underground slave factory at Nordhausen—than other Nazis camps. Their were fewer killings too. Not all were Jews but most were well educated professors and scientist forced to build the V-2 Rockets. He is the only man to win the Iron Cross from Hitler and the Medal of Freedom from LBJ. I am sure he never wore them together.
Did you see the link posted the other day...you might like this. It’s the new live streaming cameras from the space station.
“Black Scenes = Night side of the Earth;
Gray Scenes = Switching to the next camera, or the communications downlink from the ISS in not available at the moment.”
NASA has been a shell since Carter for sure. When a better tech than the space shuttles came along in the 90s, the Delta Clipper initiative (single stage to orbit, VTOL lifting body spacecraft that could be turned around in 24 hours with a minimal ground crew and low overall per mission cost), NASA got it taken away from DARPA and given to them. NASA then made sure DC-X died a quiet death so they could stick to stupid spacecraft with wings.
Sergei Korolev’s work was entirely founded on Von Braun’s design, and Korolev served the Evil Empire, so, no.
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