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How A Nazi Secret Weapon Launched The Space Race
Published 11th October 2018
During World War II, German scientists created the first missile capable of reaching space, and it became the catalyst for humanity's venture into the unknown.
Read all about it here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...-ii-180961110/
“As the war came to a close, the U.S. government was itching to get ahold of the German wartime technology.”
The Rocket That Launched Sputnik and Started the Space Race:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/spa...ocket-sputnik/
“Everyone remembers the 185-pound silver satellite that kickstarted the space race, but what about the rocket that got it there?”
Mercury Primate Capsule and Ham the Astrochimp
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/e...ham-astrochimp
“On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space. However, three months earlier NASA had launched “Number 65” on a mission that helped pave the way for Shephard’s momentous flight. Number 65 was a male chimpanzee born in 1957 in the French Cameroons in West Africa.”
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