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They actually didn’t. German rocket scientists were smart people and they surrendered to US to avoid horror of dealing with NKVD. That said, there are reasons
by lightgreen 7y ago
They actually didn’t. German rocket scientists were smart people and they surrendered to US to avoid horror of dealing with NKVD.
That said, there are reasons why USSR was first in space. For example, USSR deliberately ignored human life cost. In particular, they seriously considered first human flight to be a failure, so they announced it publicly only after Gagarin landed successfully.
- jjeaff 7y agoIt is well documented that some Nazi scientists worked on Russian rocket programs after ww2.
- lightgreen 7y agoSome, yes, but I think most of them went to US.