“The impression one gets from these sanitized histories is that this was a man who had materialized out of nowhere, with no discernible past, like an astrophysical Mary Poppins who had come to teach the people of Huntsville how to make rockets.”

U.S. institutions have a long way to go in examining their relationship with pivotal figures of the Nazi war machine, such as Alfried #Krupp and Wernher #vonBraun.

#history #Erinnerungskultur #WW2 @histodons

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/opinion/stanford-harvard-nasa-nazi-scientists.html

I love watching #spacex launches. They bring up memories of the old pictures I'd look at on the floor if my bedroom of Von Braun rockets that we were supposed to have by the 70s. It blows my mind that I can expect at least one rocket launch a week with a rocket that will probably land on legs. It's not a jet pack or a flying car but I'll take it!

#rocket #vonbraun #space #future