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re: 80 years ago today: the first photograph from outer space is taken
Posted on 10/25/26 at 12:15 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 10/25/26 at 12:15 pm to RollTide1987
First shot is always a selfie
Posted on 10/25/26 at 12:24 pm to sqerty
First selfie in space.
Buzz Aldrin, Gemini 12, Nov. 11,1966.
You can clearly see the curvature of Earth.
Posted on 10/25/26 at 1:34 pm to TechBullDawg
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Germany would have had ICBMs. America's space program largely possible due to German engineering, such as the V2
The V2 was considered one. It was the first rocket to leave the earth’s atmosphere.
And really? I thought it was all due to a black woman.
Posted on 10/25/26 at 1:53 pm to TigerHornII
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At its height, there were over 400,000 scientists and engineers working on Apollo. Of those, only about 100 were German ex-pats and may of them had to hammered into submission on items like multi-stage rockets vs single stage, this included WvB himself. Almost all of the big problems were solved by someone other than the Paperclip Germans.
von Braun was the smiling face of the program thanks to charisma and leadership skills, but he drew far to much credit for the other German rocket scientists in the process.
I thought Paperclip brought close to 2K Germans to America. IDK how many worked Apollo.
IMO, you are significantly underselling the importance of the Germans to our rocketry. Just one example, they understood far more than we did about protecting the BHS.
As for WvB, he was a brilliant visionary. At 25, he was named technical director of Germany's rocket program. No way would he be given the role he was if he only brought "charisma and leadership" to the table.
Posted on 10/25/26 at 2:34 pm to RollTide1987
Earth sure looks flat…
Posted on 10/25/26 at 3:57 pm to AlwysATgr
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I thought Paperclip brought close to 2K Germans to America. IDK how many worked Apollo.
IMO, you are significantly underselling the importance of the Germans to our rocketry. Just one example, they understood far more than we did about protecting the BHS.
As for WvB, he was a brilliant visionary. At 25, he was named technical director of Germany's rocket program. No way would he be given the role he was if he only brought "charisma and leadership" to the table.
Only around a 100 were on Apollo.
The importance of the German team is oversold far more than it is looked at realistically. I am old enough that I did what amounted to my jr engineer training in the space program under a guy who had a swastika on his birth certificate, They contributed quite a lot, not all of it was right,
Americans contributed far more. The Saturn V main engine (Rocketdyne F-1), arguably the greatest rocket engine ever built, had its success attributed by WvB to an American engineer who fixed problems previously thought insurmountable.
I agree on WvB's vision. I was thinking it but didn't type it.
This post was edited on 10/25/26 at 3:58 pm
Posted on 10/25/26 at 5:31 pm to rooster108bm
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Most of what the Germans knew they learned from Robert Goddard. Werner Von Braun admitted that Goddard had it all figured out and saved them years of work. The US Government even settled with his estate for patent infringement over the v2.
Another fun fact Goddard died less than 24 hours after the 2nd bomb hit Nagasaki.
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