What would WW2 been like if Hitler had not hated the Jews?

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

You sure about that syscom. The guy who made the US Nasa space program possible only years after WW2 was the head engineer for all this.

Thanks for the info guys, very interesting.

 

[syscom3]

You sure about that syscom. The guy who made the US Nasa space program possible only years after WW2 was the head engineer for all this.
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The space program began in earnest in the mid 50's, when a lot more pieces of the technological puzzle were developed.

When you consider the vast sums of money and technicians/engineers/scientists both the USA and USSR threw at the rocket programs in the 50's, just to have a possible chance of success, then its highly improbable that Germany could have pulled it off in the 40's.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I too doubt that it would have been possible in the 40s but the man was a genius and with the proper funding and time, I believe he could have accomplished it by 1945 if he started earlier eneogh. They were on the right track and it was just a matter of time. Had it not been for WW2 it would have been Von Braun and the Germans putting the first man in space.

 

[Twitch]

Obviously von Braun had "the formula" to get into space. That's apparent from his calculations of what the A-11/A-12 needed in thrust to achive orbit. He got us into space so there is no contention that it wasn't possible. Von Braun never stated any timetable of reaching space by any specific 1940s date.

But in reality the US space program began the moment von Braun and his compatriots were brought here under Operation Paperclip. They began modifying and firing off the dozens of V-2s they imported at White Sands in 1946. Everything from there on was a gradual building to the big-paylod rockets later. In between were all sorts of detours with tactical missiles and other battlefield rocket paraphenalia.

Too bad von Braun's legacy has been left to rot. We were supposed to have permanent moon bases and to land on Mars before 2000. It's like we forgot the technology and have been transported back in time. We couldn't get to the moon again now without bankrupting the country and taking 10 years to do it.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

And too bad so many people know and understand that it was actuallhy Von Braun that started it all. Most people in the US probably dont even know that he was a part of NASA. If I recall they eventually made one of the heads of NASA and brought his family to live with him and they lived in Washington DC for a while.

 

[Twitch]

He was a man of vision for sure. In the 30s he'd have brainstom discussions with the likes of Hermann Oberth, Wallter Dornberger, Willy Ley, Klaus Reidel and even Hitler's favorite aviatrix, Hannah Reisch. They "chatted with such easy familiarity about outer space, the moon, the planets and what forms extraterrestrial life might take."

Only the Advanced Projects Group, under the direction of Dip-Ing Roth and Ing Palt, continued design of the missile. It was also planned to develop, after the war, a stratospheric rocket that could travel in 40 minutes from Europe to America. After that, the target was orbital spaceships that could reach 8 km/sec and 500 km orbital altitude. Beyond that, space stations, satellites and the burial in space of the embalmed bodies of the rocket developers and men of the rocket service. Manned expeditions to the moon were also a popular theme for research. Finally, the use of nuclear energy to achieve interstellar travel was studied by the Advanced Projects Group.

Amazing that the German scientific society was seriously thinking of these things to come.