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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,607 posts) Wed Nov 16, 2022, 04:56 PM Nov 2022

JFK briefed by Wernher von Braun on NASA's new Saturn rocket at Cape Canaveral, November 16, 1963

Tue Nov 16, 2021: JFK briefed by Wernher von Braun on NASA's new Saturn rocket at Cape Canaveral, November 16, 1963

JFK briefed by Wernher von Braun on NASA's new Saturn rocket at Cape Canaveral, tomorrow 1963: #JFKL

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JFK briefed by Wernher von Braun on NASA's new Saturn rocket at Cape Canaveral, November 16, 1963 (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2022 OP

I am reminded of Von Braun's autobiography- "I Aim for the Stars"-- viva la Nov 2022 #1

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1. I am reminded of Von Braun's autobiography- "I Aim for the Stars"--

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Wed Nov 16, 2022, 05:05 PM

Nov 2022

and some critic's rejoinder "But Sometimes I Hit London."

(For the Nazis, Von Braun developed the V2 rocket... and after the war, was secretly brought to the US to help start the space program. One of our more, shall we say, complex ethical decisions.)

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