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Who got America to the moon? An unlikely collaboration of Jewish and former Nazi scientists and engineers
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Los Angeles Times


Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2020
Posted: August 15th, 2022
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-01/who-got-...

In early days of America’s space program, two men met over a bottle of Jack Daniel’s. It was roughly 1959, when the future of America’s young space program was clouded by technological disagreements. On one side of the bottle was Wernher von Braun, the engineering genius who had developed the world’s first ballistic missile for Adolf Hitler during World War II. He had once been a member of Hitler’s Schutzstaffel, or SS, but now ran NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. On the other side was Abraham Silverstein, who had grown up in a poor Jewish family in Indiana. He was NASA’s space flight chief. One former Nazi, one American Jew. Little more than a decade separated them from the Holocaust. Looming before two of America’s top rocket engineers were many critical decisions, including what kind of fuel would be needed to blast off astronauts to the moon. The collaboration between Von Braun and Silverstein was not unique. During the Apollo program, which landed Americans on the moon six times between 1969 and 1972, NASA was filled with both Jewish scientists and a large group of Germans who had worked for Hitler before and during World War II. In recent years, a deeper analysis has focused on America’s decision to bring 125 German rocket scientists and engineers to the U.S. after World War II under a secret program approved by President Truman and code-named Operation Paperclip. Much of the history of the underground factory was held secret from the American public until the 1970s.

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