hodgy0_2

v interesting but they dont mention that

Rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun had been championing an alternative concept called Earth Orbit Rendezvous (EOR) since his US Army days in the late 1950s.

was the same guy who developed the V1 and V2 for **** Germany in the 30's and 40's

Timwinner

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Rocket Robin - BBC Top Gear

SWRTWannabe

I thought that was how America got where it is today - by grabbing the German scientists before the Russians could.

hodgy0_2

Yep apparently it was called Operation Paperclip

Although the Russian Soyuz project was staffed by captured German rocket scientists too

the final months of the war were a bit of a race between the US and the Russians to see who could get the scientists/technology from the germans

I think it was criticised in some quarters because the concentration camps could have been liberated earlier, had the allies not been concentrating on the rocket technology

Leslie

The Germans were well advanced in many things at that time, jet aircraft with well made axial flow engines and the rocket fighter too.

Les

FlightMan

All things Apollo fascinate me. I firmly believe that was man's greatest scientific achievement to date.

hodgy0_2

yep -- I work in IT and when someone asks me whether so and so can be done


I often reply "well they can put a man on the moon" and they did it with 16k of memory on the command module

sbk1972

Hodgy02, I work in IT too, but if someone ever replied with a comment like that, I would look at him, like a right nerd, and wonder if he'd ever kissed or seen a girl naked !

:-)

Also, are we sure these guys landed on the moon ?? Many believe they didnt !

SBK

hodgy0_2

yes -- an Omega wasn't it

this could become a watch thread, if we are not carefull!!!

PS my Nan (god rest her soul) never believed a man went to the moon

jasey

It's amazing what can be achieved when you don't run ******* windows

jasey

I once met Gene Cernan on a flight to the USA and he seemed pretty genuine to me.

Cool to shake the hand of a man who's walked on the moon

hodgy0_2

you need 2 fvcking gig of memory to get the control panel icons to display in a reasonable time, any less memory and its make a cuppa time while they come up

pathetic

FlightMan

The last man to walk on the moon.

hodgy0_2

apart from Micheal Jackson -- oh hold on !!!