To: Condor 63
The Germans had hidden volumes of technical drawings and equipment in a mineshaft, and von Braun turned these over to the U.S. Army. Initially, Stuhlinger said, von Braun told Army leaders that 500 German rocket scientists should be allowed to travel to the United States. But, to that suggestion, Pentagon officials cabled back: "No way." Stuhlinger said, "They would allow only 100, but eventually 118 came over." In the early 1970's, I had a highschool German teacher who had been a CIC operative in post-wat Berlin. He liked to say that the reason we got to the moon first was because we nabbed the right German scientists before the Russians could get them.
7 posted on
10/02/2006 6:39:06 AM PDT by
mikeus_maximus
(The Red Chinese are building MG's in Oklahoma-- that's just wrong on so many levels.)
To: mikeus_maximus
Our Germans are better then their Germans.
13 posted on
10/02/2006 7:36:21 AM PDT by
Hydroshock
( (Proverbs 22:7). The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.)
To: mikeus_maximus
He liked to say that the reason we got to the moon first was because we nabbed the right German scientists before the Russians could get them. It's my understanding that Von Braun's team was made up of mostly "guidance and control" engineers. The Russians got a team composed of mainly "propulsion" engineers.
This may explain why the Russians were able to put heavier payloads into orbit during the early years.
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