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Originally Posted by geetrue
This is so interesting due to the path the mind of man has taken from a little over
a year after the end of WWII to till today, ever wanting to know more, ever reaching,
gaining another grasp on where we live.
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Actually this started before WWII had even ended and even Wernher von Braun always had the ultimate goal of space travel even before WWII had started.Some where testing rockets with the goal of space travel even in the 1920s. If anything WWII boosted in an inhumane way the progress and also introduced rockets as a weapon of mass destruction. Wernher von Braun actually got the attention of the Gestapo because it was felt that he was more concerned with using the V-2 for space travel rather than as a weapon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun