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60 Years Later: The V2 And The Space Race
securitas writes "In a two-part feature written sixty years after the V2 rocket was first launched on London, BBC News Online's Paul Rincon describes the Soviet-American space race, German V2 rocket technology and how the USSR and USA divided Germany's best scientists between them. The second part addresses the technological lineage of both space programs, the creation of NASA, intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) development and the V2's legacy. Another feature provides some context, following the history of the development of the V2 rocket from its precursors that began with space flight enthusiasts like Wernher von Braun and Walter Riedel, through its use as a terrifying weapon in the London Blitz, to the recruitment drive by the Americans and Soviets. Today the V2 rocket is being used as the basis for the Canadian Arrow X Prize team. The Arrow team has some pages on V2 history and the main engine thrust chamber. For those interested you can read more at the A4 / V2 Rocket Resource site."
The American and English textile industry of the 17/1800's was built upon slavery, slavery which was justified by a racist belief of superiority held by the oppressors (ethnic Europeans).
The Americans and the English murdered between 300,000 and 500,000 innocent German civilians not participating in the war, on the 13th of February 1945, after the war had been lost, on Dresden.
They then proceeded to kidnap scientists and exploit them for their own perverted interpritations on how rocket science should be used.
But, hey, with the likes of GPS and cell phones, they did do pretty good with this gift from Germany.
Pretty good for war criminals using slave labour and kidnapped intellectuals.