Americas first space program?

Question

is it true that Americas first space program was started and run by German scientists. brought over from Germany after the war because there knowledge was far superior than the Americans.if so is it the Germans to thank for first space flight.

Answer 1

The US brought over the German rocket scientists (as did the Soviets) and that field evolved into the space program.  They are related but n**i Germany is not responsible for the US space program.

Answer 2

That's funny.  Germans are no smarter that anyone else.  They never have been... they were forced to work on rockets for the n***s.  You may be thinking about the atomic bomb research.

Answer 3

Robert Goddard, an American, was the father of modern rocketry.  He launched the first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926.  Unfortunately his ideas fell on deaf ears here in the US.  In fact, the NY Times published a now famous editorial describing how his ideas were foolish because rockets wouldn't work in the vacuum of space ("they wouldn't have the air to push against", lol).  German engineers and scientists, however, were very interested in his work and they proceeded to build on his ideas.  When the n***s came to power they funded more research towards the  military aspects of rocket propulsion.  After seeing the military prospects of rockets in action in the war, each ally grabbed as many scientists, eng.s, equipment, and data as possible.  So yes, because Americans ignored one of their own in Goddard, the Germans were superior in rocket science at the end of WWII.

Answer 4

yes. the senior technical types were all german scintists who decided to turn themselves in to the allies in 1945.

like nasa in the 1960s, the german rocket ppl at peenemunde had clear political direction and all the money (reichsmarks, in this case) they wanted. they also had an ample supply of slave labour to do their dirty work, alas.

this is common knowledge.

Answer 5

Partly true. Von Braun and other German scientists who worked on and developped the V2 were brought to the US after the war, along with several V2 rockets. The US Bumper rocket is a V2 with a WAC Corporal on top of it; and of course, later, von Braun designed several rockets, including the mighty Saturn V that reached the Moon.

But, and this is the real irony of the thing, von Braun drew inspirations from US rocket pioneer Robert Goddard, and after Goddard passed away in 1945, von Braun had access to his papers and stated that Goddard was more advanced in his research than he was. So, it was not a matter of who was more knowledgable, but who was being listened to by his own government and not ridiculed by the press. Goddard was personnaly attacked by a (unsigned...)  New York Times editorial in 1920 that claimed that he lacked the knowledge of high school students.

In Germany, they listened instead.