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AshleyGrant 4 hours ago

Orbital? Maybe not. Sub-orbital and ballistic? Absolutely.

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anonymars 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Oh yes, I think everyone remembers Germany's ballistic rockets

"Don't say that he's hypocritical,

Say rather that he's apolitical.

'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio

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globalnode 3 hours ago | parent [-]

hehe, yes but if it wasnt for german rocket scientists the americans and russians would not have had space agencies (at least not that early)

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m4rtink 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, there was Goddard, Korolev & quite a few others. But it could indeed have taken longer if the military implications were not clearly demonstrated by Von Braun.

Still, an interesting possibility of a fully civilian space program from the start & how it would look like & how it would be different.

Kinda like in Wings of Honneamise.

	▲	dotancohen an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Not only the military aspect. His staff literally were absorbed into the Russian sand US space programs. Von Braun himself famously designed the Saturn V.