{"id":2118,"date":"2014-01-03T22:48:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T22:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.veryfunkyrecords.com\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2014-05-12T00:24:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T23:24:09","slug":"a-space-odyssey-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.veryfunkyrecords.com\/?p=2118","title":{"rendered":"A Space Odyssey – 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Werner Von Braun, is widely recognised as the father of modern rocketry, and the driving force behind early NASA missions<\/span><\/a><\/span>. \u00a0His rockets literally propelled the US into ‘The Space Race’ first position. \u00a0An interesting man who’s life could have come from the pages of a Hollywood Film, and one day probably will. \u00a0A Nazi? Yes. \u00a0Well at least on the surface. In the Second World War his rockets fell on London. \u00a0Commonly known as ‘Doodlebugs’ or ‘V2’s’ these weapons of death destroyed many parts of London towards the end of the Second World War. \u00a0Fortunately for Great Britain and the Allies the German War Machine was desperate and lumbering by the time Hitler’s so called “wonder weapons” began to take effect. \u00a0At the end of the war, as the Allies rolled into Berlin, a race began, a pre-cursor to the for mentioned ‘Space Race’, and one that would ultimately perpetuate it. \u00a0The Race? Between the Russians and the US, for the acquirement of technology, and the minds who helped to develop it. \u00a0The fleeing Nazi scientists we’re rounded up in their droves. \u00a0In the US this secret undertaking was known as ‘Project Paper Clip’<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0and the prominent figure of ‘Von Braun’ was relocated along with many of his cohorts to the West Coast of America soon after the end of the war. \u00a0Here he was given cart blanche to further develop his rockets and the result of which were used to send American astronauts into space for years to come.<\/p>\n

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