The irony here is Explorer-1 flew on a rocket developed largely by post-war German defectors. You'd think a rocket company of all places would know there's cle

The irony here is Explorer-1 flew on a rocket developed largely by post-war German defectors. You'd think a rocket company of all places would know there's clearly precedence of non-citizens contributing to the US development of spaceflight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#American_career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#American_car... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_rocket_scientists_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_rocket_scientis...