IAmSinistar: Or
<span class="bold">Wernher von Braun</span>.
Cripes, I guess we need to pull System Shock 2 now as well, since one of the
spaceships is the
Von Braun.
MaGo72: "For fifteen years after World War II, von Braun
worked with the U.S. Army in the development of ballistic missiles. As part of a military operation called Project Paperclip, he and his rocket team were scooped up from defeated Germany and sent to America where they were installed at Fort Bliss, Texas. There they worked on rockets for the U.S. Army, launching them at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. In 1950 von Braun’s team moved to the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Ala., where they
built the Army’s Jupiter ballistic missile.
In 1960, his rocket development center transferred from the Army to the newly established NASA and received a mandate to build the giant Saturn rockets. Accordingly, von Braun became director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief
architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that would propel Americans to the Moon."
Well there were
"some" german scientists that found promising work in the Army after WW II.
MaGo72: There are some people in Germany that say that the "Haager Landkriegsordnung" is still active and Germany basically never surrendered, because only the heads of the military capitulated. This means, according to those people, that Germany never signed a peace treaty(which Germany in fact never did) and we are still at war and occupied. We have something similar to a peace treaty, but one can argue something similar is not the same.
IAmSinistar: That's pretty disturbing. Kind of makes the movie
Iron Sky seem like the not the worst possible outcome...
know which kind of flag has been stabbed into the moon? Did you see it with your own eyes? *trollface*
