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<blockquote data-quote="skullmask" data-source="post: 1486657" data-attributes="member: 18968">Had my interest until the narrator started smearing Dr. von Braun as a nazi. For one thing, in Germany at the time you pretty much had to be a member of the party if you were involved in anything important like rockets. He also was not the head of NASA. That&#039;s just sloppy. He was the director of the Marshal Space Flight Center, and did a good job running the Saturn V program. Going after an accomplished legend like that makes me doubt the motives of this video.Being able to run a space company and not run it into the ground is a significant accomplishment. If not for SpaceX the USA would not have the ability to send astronauts into orbit, and we&#039;d still be forced to hitch a ride on the Soyuz. Meanwhile Boeing, supposedly a serious company with a long history of accomplishments is still stuck trying to get their starliner spacecraft to work right.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="skullmask, post: 1486657, member: 18968"] Had my interest until the narrator started smearing Dr. von Braun as a nazi. For one thing, in Germany at the time you pretty much had to be a member of the party if you were involved in anything important like rockets. He also was not the head of NASA. That's just sloppy. He was the director of the Marshal Space Flight Center, and did a good job running the Saturn V program. Going after an accomplished legend like that makes me doubt the motives of this video. Being able to run a space company and not run it into the ground is a significant accomplishment. If not for SpaceX the USA would not have the ability to send astronauts into orbit, and we'd still be forced to hitch a ride on the Soyuz. Meanwhile Boeing, supposedly a serious company with a long history of accomplishments is still stuck trying to get their starliner spacecraft to work right. [/QUOTE]

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