Outside/In: The Dark Side Of The Moon
A 46-foot, 14-ton captured German V-2 rocket is launched during a test firing at White Sands Proving Ground, near Las Cruces, New Mexico, in May 1946. The long-range liquid-fuel rocket was developed by German engineer Wernher von Braun, who in September 1945 came to the U.S. as a technical advisor to the United States Army's missile program. ASSOCIATED PRESS hide caption
A 46-foot, 14-ton captured German V-2 rocket is launched during a test firing at White Sands Proving Ground, near Las Cruces, New Mexico, in May 1946. The long-range liquid-fuel rocket was developed by German engineer Wernher von Braun, who in September 1945 came to the U.S. as a technical advisor to the United States Army's missile program.
ASSOCIATED PRESS50 years ago the world watched as man first landed on the moon, an incredible accomplishment by the engineers and scientists of NASA. But what if some of those same engineers and scientists had a secret history that the U.S. government tried to hide? This week, the story of how the U.S. space program was made possible by former Nazis.
If you would like to read more about the topic:
- Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War by Michael J. Neufeld
- Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen
- From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
- American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas Brinkley
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