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[Chauncey]

Whilst listening to the wonderful Beautiful South's My Book there's a verse in there that's ...

Dairy entry '68 end of the year
A cardboard Apollo 6 has been given the all clear
11th December '68 Captains log
Proposed trip to Mars cancelled due to fog,due to fog
It's all due to fog,due to fog

Now then,was there an Apollo 6 in '68 and surely it wasn't cancelled due to fog?

[6EQUJ5]

The Apollo 6 mission was an uncrewed journey to orbit the Moon. It was the first mission to use the Saturn 5 rocket. It was delayed for a while with technical issues. There is no mention of fog being an issue. It would only be relevant if a pilot was flying a craft 'old school' with no instruments. There was more than one engine for each stage. At least 2 engines failed but were compensated for by the 'burning' of other engines for longer than had been planned. Given this failure the orbit was not quite as planned but the mission, although not perfect, was deemed a success. It gave confidence in the Saturn 5 rocket which was used in the manned missions from Apollo 8 onwards.

[6EQUJ5]

The Operation Paperclip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip) Germans were well to the fore in the NASA space effort. Leader Wernher von Braun retired a year or so after the first Moon landing. Without these Nazis the American space effort would not have progressed all that quickly. They were the brains of it. It is perhaps a tad unfair to call them all Nazis because during the war in Germany the only way that government funding could be obtained was to be a party member. They were working on rocket technology but from 1944 until the end of the war they worked on the V2 flying bomb project. The outcome of this was that forced labour (prisoners and prisoners of war) made these V2s. But ultimately more people died in the making of them than were killed by their use. This was because the V2 had to use chemicals dangerous to anyone in close proximity.

In 1939 Adolf Hitler had visited a factory working on rocket technology. But he subsequently discovered that it was a company owned and run by Jews, so he regarded it as a Jewish technology and ignored it until 1944 and then the government funded a V2 rocket bomb project by
a pure German company. But by then Germany's ability to produce these rocket bombs had been seriously diminished because most factories
that could manufacture anything for the war effort had been bombed.

[Chauncey]

I knew that German scientists and lab technicians had gone over to the US at the end of the war to work on the moon landing project but I thought that it was around a dozen not 1600,that is a huge number!

If the factory that Hitler visited in '39 was owned by a blonde blue eyed arian German do you think that the war would have ended differently or the surrender of Britain?

I always thought that the Saturn 5 rockets was like the Apollo rockets but earlier,by that I mean whole rocket not just the engine,a Mk5 becoming a Mk6 the same way that cars have facelifts,you learn something new everyday so thanks for your reply,Hilters hatred of Jews,the disabled and homo***uals must have also held him back in the war considering the talent that he had in Germany at the time