Reply #44: If you can find a copy of James Michner's "Space" in the [View All]

[Cleita]

library and don't mind a lot of boring history, read it. It's about the rocket scientists that Hitler employed with the specific intent of inventing rockets like the ICBM's we have today. It tells the tale of how after the war the scientists were divided up between the Russians and the Americans. Those who came to America were planked down in Los Alamos, New Mexico and given what they needed to continue their work.

Well, guess what evolved out of this, the space program, the space race with the Russians and yes, the first man on the Moon. I mean I am watching satellite TV right now. This was made possible by those German rocket scientists of long ago.