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APOLLO’S BUMPS IN THE ROAD TO SPACE

In Apollo Chronicles you talk about Wernher von Braun, who previously worked for Nazi Germany in World War II. Was there much convincing needed in the United States in order to allow him to work on rockets in their space program?

To the best I could find, no. In fact, information about his past in World War II started coming out in Europe during the peak of the Apollo program, or the crest of it, and von Braun was very worried about some of these reports in German getting translated to English and then

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