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MadeInDex (madeindex@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 00:42:16 JST MadeInDex
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- Bishop Whitewind
@B_Whitewind They wanted that #V2 so badly ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket
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  V-2 rocket
  
  The V2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 2'), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance weapon" and assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings of German cities. The V2 rocket also became the first artificial object to travel into space by crossing the Kármán line (edge of space) with the vertical launch of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944. Research of military use of long-range rockets began when the graduate studies of Wernher von Braun were noticed by the German Army. A series of prototypes culminated in the A4, which went to war as the V2. Beginning in September 1944, more than 3,000 V2s were launched by the Wehrmacht against Allied targets, first London and later Antwerp and Liège. According to a 2011 BBC documentary, the attacks from V-2s resulted in the deaths of an estimated 9,000 civilians and military personnel...
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  Bishop Whitewind (b_whitewind@regenerate.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 00:42:19 JST Bishop Whitewind
  
  So in case you're unaware......... A #Nazi #scientist was brought on as the founding director of #NASA and then went on to be a beloved spokesperson for Walt #Disney
  https://www.nasa.gov/people/wernher-von-braun/#:~:text=Von%20Braun%20also%20served%20as,and%20Space%20Administration%20(NASA)
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    Wernher von Braun
    
    from Brian C. Odom
    
    Dr. Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) was one of the most important rocket developers and champions of space exploration in the twentieth century. As a youth he

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