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I thought American space flight etc was directly indebted to the people behind the V bombs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip https://en.wikipe

• WalterBright 9mo ago
  The Saturn V was simply a scaled up V2. The critical components were all there: 1. boundary layer cooling 2. pre-heating fuel and cooling the nozzle by pushing the fuel through tubes in the nozzle 3. baffles to prevent pogo-ing 4. turbo fuel pumps 5. supersonic airframe 6. guidance system (although primitive) The V2 was an ineffective military weapon that did little damage - because its guidance system was too primitive to be able to hit a target. Hitler also poured enormous resources into the V2 program, shifted away from producing weapons that were effective.