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Originally Posted by eddie
Its war record aside, the V2 was the stepping stone to further rocket development by both sides. With von Braun in the States after the war, what was learned from the technology of the V2 would lead in the end, to rockets like the Atlas, Titan and finally the Saturn V.
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Lets not forget the innerworkings that did lead to more,
the basic technology of the gyros evolved into classic
cold war inertial navigation systems.
(Note: a device still used heavily by submarine simulators
world wide, )
also the Graphite steering fins in the exhaust were the
progenitors of modern advanced carbon fiber composites.
Itself a remarkable enabling technology.
Further the principle of the fuel system ran through many generations
of liquid fueled rockets, and has landed several things on other planets
and brought a few things back to this one.
Mush