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Originally Posted by svandamme
Werner was the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket.
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He was one of many who helped designed it, and others built it.
Von Braun gets all the credit but there were thousands of engineers designing that rocket, von braun coordinated the effort.
Just like Edison gets credit for all the inventions his engineers designed for him.
Besides, von Braun wasn't even the best German we stole.
I believe Arthur Rudolph did more to advance the US space program but he didn't get much credit because of that whole Nazi war crimes thing.
Not sure why von braun got away with it and Rudolph didn't, ….. wink wink.
The V2 and subsequent A4 reached a max altitude of 117 km.
My son and a bunch of his fellow engineering students are currently building a liquid-fueled rocket that should hit 120 km.
Arthur Rudolph, project director of the Saturn V
