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Havent read entire paper but the writer suffers in a lapse in logic out of the gate.

He says von Braun was skeptical getting to space, saying it was impossible: "each [of 3] rocket ship[s] would be taller than New York’s Empire State Building [almost ¼ mile high] and weigh about ten times the tonnage of the Queen Mary, or some 800,000 tons.” but then, later, this same author points out how the Ruskies got to space first. This he says is reason to believe the Americans could not have beat them to the moon.

well? Which was it pal?

Are you saying von Braun proved himself wrong and the ruskies made it to space first? Or are you saying von Braun was always right and the ruskies were faking it too.

It seems the author plainly knows von Braun was wrong about his initial rocket math, based on old tech, and lets it slip, all too eager to make one more conflicting bullet point.

"Apollo" is mexican for "achicken".

Imagine if you had 7,000 tapes of your wedding but your now-hostile wife destroyed (or hid) all of the original footage.

Would you find it bizarre that your friend suspected the wedding never took place?

"Bro, how can you think I never got married? You saw the wedding invitation. Her last name is my last name now. What about the photos other people took?"

Cheap attempt using von Braun's early skepticism, before it evolved.

Ask yourself how you felt about jews 12 years ago. Bet, canvassing your language, you could find the most embarassing quote - not to be interpreted as the final say on the matter.

Is this the laurel canyon writer? He alludes to it. A good writer but, perhaps, should stick to what he knows. Reads like the curious musings a person who yearns to fill his ego; attempting to repeat the success of his previous writings

It was a different time. Cuban missile crisis rocked America in a big way. JFK bullshitted through that, told Defense to get their shit together and ensure the marxists never got the jump on us again.
We needed to be able to land a fucking warhead on the kremlin, and better yet the soviet people had to know this for certain as well. So the rocket to the moon effort began.

Remember it was Eisenhower, a former general who had allowed the soviets and that cocksucker Castro to embarrass JFK. This did ring the alarm bells about how truly vulnerable America had been. The rocket to the moon plan always revolved around the idea of "American know how". So it's sort of funny we never got close on a German rocket design but just faked it with TV trickery. The American way.

The important thing was it worked. For enough people for long enough anyway. The Soviet people knew the power of American technology now. If America could place men on the moon then it was impossible to hope to win a nuclear war. I imagine Nixon, a staunch anti-communist, greatly enjoyed his faked phone call.

Then when he failed to leave "orbit" he nuked it. Then when that failed he gave up and died. Leaving on his gravestone the testament of his failure.