<VV> V2 vs Saturn

[Hugo Miller]

I can claim a tenuous link to Herr vn Braun - he was taught by the same 
mane who taught my father - Hermann Oberth. The Oberth family had an 
ironmonger's shop in the village in Transylvania where my father came 
from. It may even still be there. Everybody thought Herr Oberth was 
crazy with his talk of sending men to the Moon in space rockets.
I believe the Americans actually got a V2 into space, and they just 
took it from there. So yes, there is a direct link between the V2 and 
the Saturn V. But I will grant you that 'uprated' may not do it justice.
The Germans already had a design for a bomber that would skip across 
the top of the atmosphere to reach America. And, unbelievably, they had 
a plan to put a three mile-wide mirror in space to focus the Sun's rays 
onto American cities and vaporise them. As with the Bomb, Hitler 
resisted developing any weapons that would take a long time to reach 
fruition, as he maintained the War would be over in a couple of years.
No sane German would have surrendered to the Russians, after the price 
the Russians paid at the hands of the Nazis. 23 million Russians died in 
WWII and we owe them a huge debt of gratitude.
All of which has nothing to do with Corvairs, other than the fact that 
Hitler designed the VW Beetle, without which who knows whether the 
Corvair would ever have been born?

On 2020-03-16 21:16, James P. Rice via VirtualVairs wrote:
> "Maybe not in a Saturn V though. Which, incidentally, was just an 
> up-rated
> Nazi V2 rocket. There would have been a Swastika on the Moon long 
> before
> 1969 if we hadn't upset their plans.
>
> Hugo:  You have engaged in Extreme Hyperbole with your statement the 
> Saturn
> V was a up-rated V2 .  Kind like saying a Porsche GT4 is a ungraded 
> go-kart.
>
>
> You need to go to Huntsville Alabama or the Kennedy Space Center and 
> stand
> under a Saturn V.  And maybe read some good history books about the 
> 500 or
> so repentant Kruts and why they choose to surrender to the US Army 
> instead
> of the Soviet Union.  Those who could not make the choice suffered 
> mightily.
>
>
> Historically Yours,
>
> 		James Rice
>
>
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