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The cute little V2 is on the left was developed by verner and the Germans.
As compared to the United States Saturn V (second from the right).

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The V2 engine (only had one):
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One of eleven engines from the three stage Saturn V rocket:
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So if nothing else, the US knows how to make it bigger and louder.



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That sir, is NOT a classic Corvette:

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Werner was the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket.

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Wernher von Braun and Saturn IB on Launch Pad
Dr. Wernher von Braun stands in front of a Saturn IB launch vehicle at Kennedy Space Flight Center. Dr. von Braun led a team of German rocket scientists, called the Rocket Team, to the United States, first to Fort Bliss/White Sands, later being transferred to the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. They were further transferred to the newly established NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama in 1960, and Dr. von Braun became the first Center Director. Under von Braun's direction, MSFC developed the Mercury-Redstone, which put the first American in space; and later the Saturn rockets, Saturn I, Saturn IB, and Saturn V. The Saturn V launch vehicle put the first human on the surface of the Moon, and a modified Saturn V vehicle placed Skylab, the first United States' experimental space station, into Earth orbit. Dr. von Braun was MSFC Director from July 1960 to February 1970.

Each F1 would drain one of these worth of fuel per second.

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Okay, not really relative to the above comment but interesting to note that not one of those woman is overweight. What a contrast to today.

^Same goes for men... ^

They didn't eat nearly as many processed foods back then.

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If you haven't seen it before.

von Braun's Saturn V launch in slomo.

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Not one of those women is a man!

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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
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