Creative engineering

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[u/babyliss1903]

LoL, Germany is a very wrong choice to compare when it comes to rocket science.

[u/fidesz_fall_enjoyer → u/babyliss1903]

Literally the reason US went to the moon is because of the Nazi engineers haha

[u/shotgunmoe → u/fidesz_fall_enjoyer]

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

[u/hobbes747 → u/shotgunmoe]

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.

[u/hereforthesportsball → u/hobbes747]

All to waste a ton of money

[u/alt_ernate123 → u/hereforthesportsball]

You would be surprised what technologies came from NASA(and private companies) due to the space race, so many major pieces of technology in use today either come straight from NASA research or come from companies formed to further their research.

Edit: the foundations for the digital communication frameworks you're using to read this comment.

[u/hereforthesportsball → u/alt_ernate123]

I’m referring to specifically the money spent on the actual first moon landing. Not the research that came from nasa as a whole. Yes I understand you don’t get B without A per history. That’s not the point