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Wernher von Braun needs his own movie like Oppenheimer

"When the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!" Says Werner von Braun

now i understood those ''where were NASA scientists during WWII'' memes

I had a lot of family in Huntsville. As a kid, I got shipped there in the summer to hang out with cousins. It wasn't until I was an adult, that I got into history. When I learned that Von Braun lived in Huntsville, I said...OMG...For all I know, we may have driven by his house. History is rich and complex. Thanks for expanding it just a little bit more. 👍🏿

As an engineer who worked at MSFC NASA n Huntsville in the 90s, I CRINGE every time I hear the term “rocket scientist “. These Germans were rocket engineers and I was able to meet one who gave a speech at NASA. Scientists think about things. Engineers do things.

Wow can't believe I haven't heard of this channel sooner. This is great content. Well made videos. Ive been browsing

I saw him, live. Lecturing at Millersville University. (Just outside of Lancaster, PA.) When I was in High School Physics class. This was 1974. He spoke of hopes to create new metalic alloys in the absence of gravity (out in space). The goal was to make super-conductors at room temperature. Which was expected to allow them to create computer memory more dense than the human brain. I suspect our present day "thumb drives" or "flash drives" have achieved this storage capacity.

According to one book during development l, the V2 was falling apart as it came down. The engineers wanted to see it happen so decided that they would target an open field and stand directly at the point they were targeting reasoning that they knew they weren’t that accurate so should be safe. That day they were pretty accurate and the rocket came down within a hundred yards of them. Fortunately for them just far enough they weren’t killed. But still pretty funny. Or at least I think so!

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I'm puzzled by the fact von Braun never (if I'm correct) attended debriefing conferences after Apollo missions, at least not the public ones. You'd think the father of rocketry would.

The production was originally with the engineering development at Peenemunde on the Baltic Sea. The Allies got word and bombed it. Due to that the Nazis moved production to the Nordhausen cave complex and started using slave labor instead of German labor due to secrecy concerns. But the V2 had many operational failures. Nobody knows how many of these slave laborers threw in dirt or pebbles deep in the rocket.

so well done

Born in the year of Sputnik, I grew up with the space program. Apollo was discussed in school every day for two years prior to the moon landing. The White House and NASA propaganda was hot & heavy at that time. Although I was a top science student and the NASA liaison for my school, I NEVER remember hearing of von Braun until well after the Apollo program had ended. His name just didn't come up very often because the focus was on the astronauts, the mission and the science. In addition, we were taught that absolutely no astronauts drank alcohol, smoked tobacco or participated in promiscuous activity. In other words, the message was always tightly controlled and von Braun was kept almost as invisible as Soviet Chief Designer Sergei Korolev.

Amazing videos!

I love all your videos, thank you, I'm kids thinks I'm nerdier than ever.

I love your perspective in this video it’s fair thanks 🙏 for the info this changes the way I look at life

Of course von Braun saw the tunnels. The chief engineer would always be involved in production.

Really, really, wonderful and fair perspective on Von Braun. Thank you!

The developers of the V2, Wasserfal, Redstone, Jupiter and Saturn weren't scientists. They were engineers.

The V2 was called the A4 by the engineers. A stands for aggregate which referred to the entire rocket with all its systems instead of the individual components. Only later did the government refer to it as vengeance.

Really well presented and researched! Could you please do a video about how parts of the internet are getting deleted by search engine companies?

All those brains, but still married his cousin.

As a Space enthusiast, for years I have studied the role and the deeds of all most important enablers of the "Conquest" of Space. And my impression is, that Von Braun wasn't enthusiast of the German war machine, nor it was interested in politics and politicians. He defined the rocket core concept, that a turbopump is necessary to inject the fuel into the combustion chamber - at a pressure higher than the pressure of the engine exhaust, which allowed his rockets to lift tons of weight off the ground, instead of the few kilos achieved with rockets without turbopumps. The Saturn V lifted 100 tons in low Earth orbit, i.e. all the machinery, equipment and fuel necessary to go to the Moon and return safely to Earth...

22 hours after upload, 6k views. What a shame

"He aimed for the stars, but sometimes hit London."

Von Braun is probably one of the 5 or 6 most important people responsible for Apollo not the only person. 400,000 people worked on Apollo the vast majority were american.

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Von Braun was a friggen Genius!! He made things happen when it came to Rockets! Brilliant man and well respected!!!

Grew up in the Huntsville, AL area where von Braun worked at NASA...this has been very informative.

We need to understand one thing! Engineers or scientists put their best efforts to fulfill tasks assigned by higher authorities. JUST because their creations were used for Evil purpose does not mean the man is evil

Does Von Braun’s work justify naming a Moon/Mars settlement after him or does his past exempt him from such honours? What do you think?

Oddly and tragically more people died making the V2 weapon than were killed from its use

Continue this into the Haunebu. This is public knowledge now. 1952 D.C. flyover.

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You should have mentioned that in his book "The Mars Project", he said that an elected official on Mars would be called the "Elon"

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Don’t forget about his warning.

I have a relative who was a good friend of Verner von Braun, his last name is Winkler. exactly what my grandfather's mother's surname was also called. Winkler and Werner von Braun were really good friends and their teacher in rocketry was called Dr ohbars I hope the last name was correct. Winkler and Verner von Braun and their other relatives are also named Winkler and von Braun, although it was in the Luftwaffe where they flew henkel 111. for me, it's just history that happened a long time ago. it's only 0.2% of the people who argue about what happened 80 to 90 years ago, have a pathetic clean statement. life goes on i wonder when we land on pluto they are fun aren't they.

No one knows exactly what von Braun was thinking. You can call someone a war criminal, but in that fascist regime any wrong word meant the death penalty. Of course there were forced labourers, but what could you have done? Someone who has worked in a fascist environment knows exactly what this means and how it feels.

And he was inspired by Yugoslavian scientist

This is inspiring

Niel Armstrong the 1st man landed on moon. But those scientist are the greatest of all.

Interesting. I don't disagree with pretty much all of it. Curious

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I honestly do believe that von Braun was not a Nazi. He was an opportunist and not a ideologist, his goal was too engineer a rocket.

Robert Goddard: *crying in the corner*

Well, there goes NASA…

I would hope that he saw his work as a type of atonement for what happened something to move humanity forward rather than hold it back

I did NOT see that coming!

Is the title of this video right ?

Show me a Foto with Wernher in Houston Controlcenter during moonmission.

If you didn't have a controversial past, I feel bad for you.

I am really shocked how forgiving most of these posts are.

Make a video on Sergei korolev

His dream was make rockets to land into the moon! Mission accomplished!😂

Newsthink Dr Wernher Von Braun wasn't really controversial, he was an innocent and talented engineering scientists and genius. Because ever since he read a book about rockets and going into space, he had the ambition and he really wanted to make it all a reality. The truth is throughout his life, he had been fascinated and willing to build rocket ships to go into space. I also do believe that he never wanted to be involved with conflict and war, and I really do believe he was one of them that never believed in conflict and war. I also do believe that in his vision, he never wanted to design and make rocket fuel for conflict and war. He wanted his ideas as peaceful purposes, because he really wanted to use his ideas and visions for space only. Because his number one dream and goal was to build rocket ships to go into space, and he hoped that spaceflight will be the future of traveling into outer space. As well as exploration to go to the Moon and even the red planet Mars. I really believe that Dr Wernher Von Braun really wanted to do those ideas, and that they were part of his vision of space travel and space exploration. and he wanted to build rocket ships to do all of that. And even though he worked for the nazis, and I'm very happy that you've explained in this video. Because later on when he was still with the nazis, he became a prisoner himself. Because they were evidence that he was tortured in prison, and when he was released. He wore a very big bandage on his arm. And whenever I would see that picture, I do believe that they probably broke his arm. The Nazis that is, because I really believe those guys had somehow tortured him in prison. Because I do believe later on Von Braun realized that he was making weapons for the Nazis, and I believe he was scarred and affected by it so badly. And I do believe he was ashamed of himself for making weapons, that he really wanted to make rocket ships to go into outer space. So I do believe at some point later on he wanted to escape the Nazis, and vowing himself never to make weapons ever again. Another thing I do believe that he told some of those Nazis that he really wanted to make rocket ships to go into space and that's it, but they didn't care of what he really wanted to do. And I do believe that they forced him to make weapons anyway, and if Von Braun didn't cooperate and didn't follow their orders. He too would be their prisoner, in which he was later on during World War II. And I do believe they did torture him in prison, forcing him to make weapons for the Nazis. Luckily when the war was over, Von Braun was released out of prison. I believe he was worried at first if he would be arrested by Americans, but luckily they did not arrest him. They had been fascinated of his scientist skills, and engineering talents to build rockets. And so in a way I believe the Americans really saved and rescued him away from the Nazis. And so Dr Wernher Von Braun had a new and better life to make his ideas and visions into a reality in the United States. And then former President Eisenhower formed NASA in the late 1950s, and decided that Dr Wernher Von Braun should be the lead technician, engineer and scientists of all of the rockets they would build at NASA. Dr Wernher Von Braun was really a genius and a true visionary, as well as a dreamer. Because for all of his life he wanted to make spaceflight a reality with space travel and space exploration, with powerful rocket ships that he wanted to design and build. Alive today, I believe Dr Wernher Von Braun would continue his ideas and visions to focus only two outer space

sweet,,,

Tom Lehrer has a song about Vin Braun.

Real gracefully pointed this out pluse Russia has it own history like argentinia ( sorry for my bad spelling ) his it's own messed up history. What until you find out which USA company made money from WW2.

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Werner von Braun was a great scientist he was the head of nasa yet he would listen to others ideas and never felt he was better the other scientists infact the lunar medial wasn’t his idea but when it was brought to him by an American scientist he listened and used his idea and that is how we were able to put a man on the moon if he wasn’t a great leader for nasa we would have never put an astronaut on the moon great job by Werner vin Braun!

If we ever went to the moon there would be cameras filming the earth 24 hrs a day to sell footage to weather stations. It can't be done. India would've at least put some there when they allegedly went recently.

Soviet Union did something as U.S. They (both) wanted the technology. Didn't care about past.

Yeh We all know that Werner was a German genius scientist during WW2 but without him the USA wouldn’t have got to the moon

His life is very interesting to say the least. He was very intelligent. He's also my cousin.

Love ❤️ your videos! I was 16 years old when Armstrong and Aldrin set foot on the Moon, an unforgettable experience. My father told me about Von Braun nazi relation during WW2, but not judging him. He admired Von Braun a lot and I did it too since. Saturn V was his creation and took humanity to the Moon nine times, including Apollos 8, 10 and 13 which didn’t land but did reach the Moon. He was a genius and is one of the most important human beings ever lived. He will never be forgotten.

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Ich beobachtete den Mond 🌛zur Vollmondnacht mit Fuji Camera und stellte seitlich fest das der Planet kein fester Körper sondern ein Plasmaplanet ist und Mondlandung niemals stattfand und auf KZfaq dem Suchbegriff: Chnopfloch- Great Reset erfuhr ich das selbe was ich mit Camera sah.

One small step for A man...

Professor Triphon Tournesol didn't have the same skeletons in his closets.

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The Unites States allowed a foreigner lead their NASA efforts of the 1960's to send a man to the moon and to bring him back safely. The US did not allow two academic scientists of small countries of Europe near Denmark visiting the White House in 1942 or so, when the duo had proposed to President Roosevelt to be lead scientists and project managers and to lead the newly re inaugurated and highly funded nuclear weapons program of 1942. They had arrived in the White House in 1942 with blueprints of the Soviet nuclear weapons program.

Once ze rockets are up, who cares where they come down? "Zats not my department" says Wernher von Braun

,,The good man say‘s ,Sorry‘ for the mistakes, that he made in the past. The better man corrects them!!‘‘ - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If Hitler had the same knowledge about rockets that Von Braun possessed, America would have welcomed him with open arms as well. America had one goal. Bring Von Braun to America before Russia takes him. It paid off. We reached the moon first with his Saturn rocket. It simply proves that no matter how much we scream about the inhumanities of the world, there's only one master. Greed. So sing your songs to save the polar bear. Hold your televised stadium concert to save the rain forest. Travel across the world to plant rice to save the world from starvation. In the end It's the golden rule. Those that have the gold, make the rules.

Frankly, we should all listen.

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Not a controversial, but a glorious one!

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Thanks to Russian help pre operation Barbarossa the father of rocketry was a Russian When Russians looked at V1 they laughed at how sadly engineered it was

most of the Very Valuable inventions created by Germans and jews. USA had Power of money which purchased and relocated them.

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Real life IS complicated and when dealing with humans few things are black and white. Thank you for another good video. Side note. The Piccard family is very interesting. You pronounced it different than I'm use to and I almost didn't catch that's who you were talking about. In the 80s I had an FAA Hot Air Balloon Repair Station. Don Piccard made Piccard Balloons and when doing annual inspections on them is when I first meet Don. Later he associated with SoloSystem Balloons which I learned to fly. I believe Don made the envelopes and they were a work of art with a unique venting system. Writing this I just saw he passed two years ago. I'm at that stage of life where I'm collecting, not regrets, but "I wish I hads". I wish I had kept in touch with him. A very unique person. Didn't matter to me that he was famous in the ballooning community. (I refuse to have regrets because with out those decisions I wouldn't be where I am today. Which is extremely happy!)

Why does she call him Von Bown😂

Without the Germans, the USA will never be on the moon 😂

These scientists would not be able to get a security clearance today, it would be dam near impossible

Im distantly related to him through my german ancestry sadly we as the united states we have a big stained history of picking up and using war criminals for our political gain

Very shallow analysis, unfortunately. It is very presumptuous to judge a person who lived in Germany that period, specially a gifted student with special talent to assemble a team to perform complex work enrolled in a much bigger organization under threat and at war.

NASA's top scientist? He died in 1977, they probably have a new top scientist by now. 😂

Outer space is fiction, the firmament is real. He acknowledged it in his tombstone, PSalms 19:1

If we did land on the Moon.

Actually, it's not hard to believe the V2 rockets he made for the Nazis would transfer to the Saturn V rocket that took humanity to the moon. Edit: We needed a powerful ticket to espace Earth's gravity "well".

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Interestingly, Dr. Robert Goddard influenced their scientists, to reciprocate and come over here and spark out space program.

He was a Nazi who if he had the chance would have had Hitler's atomic bomb in one of his rockets. He wasn't anguished by what he was doing like Oppenheimer, I don't under stand the compulsion to make excuses for him. He was the very opposite of complex. He just happened to be very brilliant rocket scientist.

What a morally bankrupt and shallow conclusion drawn at the end of the video. 2+2=4, not sometimes 5, because "someone likes space". Unbelievable example of mental gymnastics. You asked a question - "How a nazi became an American Hero?", and answered it with "It's complicated and not black and white". I guess it is a matter of a perspective. For someone who uses an oil barrel as a toilet while slowly rotting in a mine, or concentration camp the issue becomes much less blurred. But if it gets us to the moon - then whatever. Let's call it "not black and white".

"Nazi" key word will not get you views 👻

In America it's common knowledge, old news, and nobody gives a shit.