Happy 4th of July.
Just wanted to remind you all that "the Chinese invented rocketry" is a meme, that in fact God gave America the strength to build the most powerful rocket of all time, the Saturn 5, to eventually put 12 White American Males on the surface of another world.
>God gave America the strength to build the most powerful rocket of all time, the Saturn 5
God gave Germany the strength, you stole it.
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yeah remember when you went to the moon before you worried more about gibsmedat and single mums
Having a few German scientists help us doesn't qualify as stealing. Americans made this happen. Germany might have been able to make it happen but they used their power to try to take over the world and lose instead
germany put us on the moon about the same way that australia gave us wifi.
a small contribution is wonderful. but it's still small. thank you and germany for your small contributions.
and remember that the smartest person ever is the american in pic related.
Australia is busy fighting the Great Carp War right now.
They'll call when their military is free to conquer New Zealand, or Haiti, or something else useless and easy.
''Wernher von Braun was a member of various German political organisations, including the SS. He was the chief developer of the V-2 rocket. This rocket was the first ballistic missile ever created.
After Operation Paperclip, Braun became the director of the Development Operations Division of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. While there, he developed the Jupiter-C rocket, which was used to launch America’s first satellite. He was also credited as being instrumental in leading the moon mission.''
NO because that never happened
Werner Dahm
''After Paperclip, Dahm made huge contributions to the U.S. space race. He worked on the Saturn V booster rocket, aerothermodynamics, and liquid hydrogen propellant systems. For his work, he became Chief of the Aerophysics Division at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center before becoming Chief Aerodynamicist at the NASA Center''
Ernst Stuhlinger
''Stuhlinger started his career as a Nazi soldier. He fought in the Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Stalingrad, before being shifted into research. Eventually, he came to work on guidance systems under von Braun.''
''After Paperclip, Stuhlinger was brought in as director of the Advanced Research Projects Division of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. He also contributed greatly to the space race, as he was one of the pioneers of electric propulsion. He also worked on the initial phases of the Hubble Telescope.''
Hubertus Strughold
''After the war, Strughold helped to pioneer the field of space medicine. He was vital in the investigation into the effects of weightlessness on people, as well as overseeing the building of space cabin simulators. At NASA, Strughold also played a central role in designing the pressure suit and the onboard life support systems used by Gemini and Apollo astronauts.''
the saturn V/lunar lander was the most complex thing ever designed by man. literally thousands of people, most of them american, contributed greatly to it, including a handful of brilliant germans.
america went to the moon with some german help. germans did not do the bulk of the design work.
imagine being the first two guys to get in this fragile little thing and fly down to land on the moon. and in the last minutes the computer overloaded again and again. then Houston says "60 seconds". that's how much fuel they had left.
Brian Cox disagrees. He's your greatest scientific mind.
Dad pls
>the saturn V/lunar lander was the most complex thing ever designed
reality would like to have a word with you
Spoils of war
The backbone of the American space program was a German man named Wernher von Braun. What they don't tell you is that his real name was Tykwon Deaux, a man of BLACK French ancestry. The whites in charge realized that he was basing the models for his rockets off of his black penis and covered this information up for years.
The first liquid-fuel rocket was made by an American.
Tsiolkovsky, Oberth, and Von Braun were all important figures though.
Saying the Chinese had any credit is a bit of a stretch though, that's like saying the guy who invented the wheel had credit for the first automobile.
I believe the Space Shuttle and the LHC both beat Apollo in terms of complexity, but it definitely was the most complex at the time.
WE WUZ ROCKET SCIENTISTS AND SHIEET
>be WvB
>be brilliant son of German aristocrats
>rise quickly through ranks of German military and SS
>lose the war
>go to America and build a missile and space program from the ground up
>ancestral estate in East Germany is nationalized and home demolished
To me that's one of the least reported events of WWII, just the sheer displacement of the wealthy. Probably the biggest ever.
t. Eternal Ivan
Remember when USA passed the law of Birth right citizenship?
Thats was the day Mexico wins.
genuine kek