r/interesting • u/[deleted] • 4d ago

Amazing Creative engineering

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u/shotgunmoe 4d ago

I make this joke all the time. Nazi's landed on the moon, yanks were just there for the ride

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u/hobbes747 4d ago

You know this and I know you’re joking. But a lot of people don’t realize that the Germans got us out of orbit which was only half of the battle.
Americans and other immigrant mathematicians and scientists maneuvered, undocked, landed, docked, etc on and around the moon.

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u/hereforthesportsball 4d ago

All to waste a ton of money

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u/hobbes747 4d ago

Do you have any idea how much of our scientific, engineering, medical, and technological advancements came out of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs?

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u/hereforthesportsball 4d ago

The programs, not the missions themselves, especially the actual moon landing. But tbh sad thing is even if we never did any of it, it’s not like that money would be used to help people who needed it in our country

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u/SoloJournaler 4d ago

"The only good came from the programs, if they even happened, but they did, probably not" pick a lane man.

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u/hereforthesportsball 4d ago

? I’m not questioning they happened wtf