KalKal
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Let's be even more honest. "Getting to the moon" wasn't even the point of bringing over Nazi scientists. The Germans had V2 rocket technology, and "we" wanted that technology to be able to build ICBM's before the Russians.
NASA was simply using the same rockets that the Van Braun and those like him developed in order to carry nuclear warheads. E.g., the "Mercury" rocket the astronauts used was just a modified Redstone nuclear missile with a space capsule instead of a warhead
Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle - Wikipedia
The Redstone was meant to be the American version of the German V2.
V2: The Nazi rocket that launched the space age
Saying that we brought Nazis over to get us to the moon makes it sound a bit more innocent than it really was.
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