V-2 Rocket, White Sands, NM 1946/11/21

White Sands NM V-2 rocket with camera makes film of earth as rocket rises and spins, 65 miles down, shows curvature of earth, "An observer in the rocket could have seen San Diego, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, and San Antonio" (partial newsreel).

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[Blaine Pain]

"Peacetime research" :D Brilliant!

[darko714]

German technology + American engineering and money = nerds making really cool things.

[SuperBlueflag]

von braun actually designed it......

[tlatoani3]

The bavarians were against nazi regime, I think you are mistaking them with people from berlin-brandenburg.

[socials10reallysucks]

Really deadly things.

[Dániel Varga]

This scientists was the true german brains, not the bavarian pub-liker nazi scums!

[Gunther Von Goldfarb skorzenygruppen]

Another stolen piece of technology,we owe to the genius of Hitler's Reich

[skeleion]

i love that game :)

[videocanone]

The V2 served the German, US, Soviet, and Chinese military missile forces and it and its GERMAN inventors were responsible for humanities first big leap into modern rocketry and this into space. To deny this is to smoke crack out of a monkey's ass.

[DonPMitchell]

Von Braun was never the head of NASA.

General Dornberger's book "V-2" is a good history -- he led the V-2 project, and Von Braun worked for him. There were no new principles in the V-2.  What was unique about Germany was that they decided to spend the large amount of money it took to develop a large rocket. Dornberger is quite humble about this, and says in his introduction that any of the advanced nations could have done the same if they had the will.

[fluffy1931]

...,keep sniffing tampons, assclown.

..,europeans ass raped native americans hundreds of years before even america existed assclown. The Spanish in the 'New World' from the carribean to central america and south america. Portugal introduced slavery into the New World and the Dutch financed the slave trade to the 'New World'. Then you got the French and the English establishing a shit storm of genocide in North America and Canada.

gtfoh assclown.

[fluffy1931]

who gives a shit, assclown. Where do we get a refund for the the piece of shit space shuttle that periodically explodes upon liftoff or re-entry? The Cold War ended with the soviet union collapsing like a hobo on a hotpocket. No nazi fagtard technology involved. gtfoh nazi fagtard assclown.