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The post that was quoted here has been removedThe level of technology from Germany is nothing like it is now, the stakes for such tech are MUCH higher when stolen.
The post that was quoted here has been removedYou are full of shyte. Did you forget I actually was trained on the technology of Apollo, my job was Apollo tracking and timing NONE OF WHICH HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH GERMANY. The Saturn V rocket may have been the great grandson of the V2 but the actual Apollo craft, rockets, lander, transponder (my transponder) was all American including the development of the cesium beam atomic clocks which was part and parcel of the timing part of my job. You seem to think the only thing to do to go to the moon is to make a huge rocket but in fact there are literally thousands of different technology developments that have to happen, for instance the first Apollo small sized computer was invented at MIT which allowed the programs that ran Apollo to run.
The post that was quoted here has been removedYou can think whatever you want, Germans helped us for sure but we are fully capable of doing on our own as much as you want to dis American science. For instance, the new version of the old Saturn V had to be done from scratch basically because they literally threw away the plans for SatV. That was a huge blunder because the Saturn V was a great rocket and would have kept the US launching their own sats and astronauts instead of having to pay hundreds of millions to Russia to do the launching.
The post that was quoted here has been removedRadar was invented by the British and used effectively unknown to the Germans so they were quite advanced. But it was my former boss, the Varian brothers who invented the klystron in their garage BTW, that allowed much higher frequencies to be used than the 200 Mhz or so used by the British, ten times higher frequency made for more resolution of the return signal, like wings showing besides just a white blip on a screen.
@sonhouse saidOn the subject of manned rocketry, I went to a talk at the RAeS on Monday on Natter [1], a late attempt by the Germans to dent Allied bomber streams. It was the first manned vertical takeoff rocket. They did groundbreaking work such as work out what position the pilot had to be in for launch, which we're so used to we don't question. The high g-forces during the boost phase basically force the pilot to be in a reclined position. After the Ba 349's first manned flight which ended in tragedy when the hatch, which had the head rest attached to it and whose latch probably wasn't properly engaged, came off in the slipstream killing or incapacitating the pilot. The aircraft then did a power dive at an estimated Mach 1.1 into the ground. Part of the problem was the pilot was in control of the aircraft and they think the high g-forces caused him to pull up on the stick. So the rocket plane went onto its back rather than rolling forward as intended. This meant that all future vertical rocket take-offs were automatically controlled.
Radar was invented by the British and used effectively unknown to the Germans so they were quite advanced. But it was my former boss, the Varian brothers who invented the klystron in their garage BTW, that allowed much higher frequencies to be used than the 200 Mhz or so used by the British, ten times higher frequency made for more resolution of the return signal, like wings ...[text shortened]... later where the SLS MAY be ready in another year or so, over budget and delayed by nearly a decade.
The post that was quoted here has been removedIt was US and German scientists who built Saturn V and I doubt Germany would have even tried to build that rocket if they had won the war, they would not have had a vision of going to the moon in my opinion.