On a few bombing missions my father as a WWII B-17 Pilot with the 463rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) told me that he use to see the mindbogglingly high contrails of the V-2 back in 1944. Yes indeed Germany was the first in space.
Von Braun and his German team got open bill and full US resources but he needed another 25 years to reach the moon so no no nazis on the moon at least not WWII nazis
I just watched it and the sequel last night. Was going to say something stupid until the narrator deflated my Hope's in the first paragraph of the narrative. 🤣😐
Just one note: "Iron Sky" was not a Hollywood production, it was done by a couple of Finns with support from the German State of Hesse (they used Frankfurt with its skyline as a stand-in for NYC)
I must say, I have been a HUGE WW2 fanatic and Nazi historian for over 15 years. I was to the point where I believed I had seen and heard it all until I came across your channel. You have such an amazing way of telling each story, most of which I believe were lost to time. I’ve been watching your videos nonstop over the past few days. My hats off to you sir ! Well done!!
I was born in Huntsville, Al. in '56...my Dad was a Radar Guidance Engineer teaching an Army Radar class at Redstone Arsenal. My Dad is now passed but he told me stories about meeting Werner Von Braun and the German Rocket Scientists/Engineers...those were heady days (A PhD. Engineer who recently retired from America's largest defense contractor.
Imagine the world has seen one of the biggest scale war in history for years, and suddenly you see a video of how we are all just on this ball in space of vacuum. Must have been a truly surreal feeling.
Wow...! were those guys REALLY ahead of their time...! In 1942 they were already making plans for space travel...while at the same time down on earth they were fighting a titanic war against the Bolshevism, and carrying out at sea an enormous submarine campaign....too many huge enterprises to deal with ....
Mark - this was a fantastic video. Your summary at the end, of the resources squandered and the comparison to the Manhattan Project, was a typically insightful account from you. Best wishes, Mal
@@bremnersghost948 I read in a interview with Donetz that he said Hitler told him "Prepare for War in the 1950's" Then of course that didn't happen but yeah. They'd have been the only people with ICBM's...and maybe even Nukes to put on top of them :/
@@bremnersghost948 Well, if hitler had waited until 42, the red army would've been completely mobilized, the French army would be mobilized, and the british too. He only declared war so early to catch the allies before they could fully prepare. Even when the germans invaded in 1940, the French army wasn't fully mobilized, and neither was the british.
i actual destinguish between rocket (A4) and warhead (v2) because the A4 was capable of working without a warhead and because of this was the first rocket used in space exploration. it also hat the capacity to carry early nukes (V2 warhead one ton, little boy nuke 1.1 ton).
@@bremnersghost948 - The V-2 was far from ready for mass production in 1942. In any case, as said in the video, the V-2 was not a success and with $2 billion spent was a huge waste of resources. The surface navy was largely a waste as well. They would have done better to invest more into the U-Boat fleet much earlier AND begun work on the advanced Type XX Electro Boat earlier as well.
It's unlikely they'll be attracted to this channel, because Dr Mark deals with facts, so it's a big red flag for them to avoid *the inconvenient truth.*
I have to think a lot of that 'movement' is just a way to annoy people/join a group. It's relatively cheap and easy for them to test for themselves, just send up a weather balloon with a camera. There's much easier/cheaper ways, but it's probably the most definitive.
Excellent! I learned ALL of this as a child in the early 1960's! Sadly today, even recent college graduates have no idea how to use a library! If it doesn't come up on google, it just doesn't exist! (for them!)
I‘m so thankful that a neutral person talks about Germany being the first nation entering space. If it was a german guy, people (especially Americans) would probably just call it propaganda.
What might be more plausible than Nazis on the Moon might be the idea that some Comet pilot beat the Mach barrier in a power dive well before Chuck Yeager.
They were being bombed day and night, fighting a war on 3 fronts, losing ships at sea and planes in the sky, losing ground by the day and yet they were still able to achieve feats of engineering that no other country could even dream of and only did so in the decades after due to the information and knowledge that they gathered. They had an absolutely astonishing level of engineering, truly unbelievable
Could you do a video on other German rocket-powered weapons and aircraft, such as: fighters (Me 163, Ba 349), surface-to-air missiles (Rheintochter, Wasserfall) and air-to-air weapons (Werfer-Granate 21, R4M, X-4)?
I met the General Walter Dornberger in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1979 he told me that he designed the Columbia von Braun was the expert in fuel. Dornberger move to a place called El Chante close to Chapala, jalisco, I have his book written in German called Pennemunde in 1981 donated by his wife Doris.Von Braun came several times to visit him. He is the father of space officially named by the USA government, , In the future more information about German inventions will be release like the jets that could fly over more than 1000 miles per hour in those days.Martin Dygula German citizen.
(3:41) imagine you stand at the railway and see a V2 "coming by on a halftrack" (Sd.Kfz. 8 ..Sonder-Kraftfahrzeug 8) i bet u feel like a time traveler.
3rd October 1944 a V2 came down 40 miles short of target on the farm at the bottom of my road. About a dozen people were killed and several were injured. The window opposite where I was sitting, shattered and I got a cut on my left knee. The girl two doors away received a small cut on her head. Quite scary.
Entering space is not the same as entering orbit. "Space" is about 100 km up. You can go straight up and then straight down. But entering orbit means traveling horizontally at about 17,000 mph.
Had it not been for the incredible waste of the war, the Germans could have made a successful moon mission by the 1950's. And today there would be a permanent Mars base.
Simply astonishing...! I can hardly believe that these guys actually reached outer space in October 1942, while the rest of the world only had eyes for what was going on in El Alamein, Stalingrad...No one was aware they had over their heads this new threat of supersonic rockets ! That von Braun was a real genius, and we should be glad he and his team chose to collaborate with the Americans, discarding Stalin's offers !
Germany got tremendous help from Robert Goddard's rocketry work. Goddard invented the self-cooling, gimbaled, liquid fuel rocket engine and was launching impressive rockets during the 1930's. Germany followed his work very closely. Goddard had about 200 patents on rocket developments. Then in 1936, Germany surpassed Goddard and cut off all contact with him. Goddard approached the US Army at that point with his rocket developments. The Army laughed, then showed him the door. After the war, US Army officers asked German engineers how they came up with the V2. They replied, "Go ask your own Doctor Goddard." The US Army officers replied, "Who?" Goddard invented rockets, but Germans like Werner Von Braum engineered the hell out of it and scaled it up, greatly.
You should do a follow-up on Eugen Sänger, an SS scientist who paved the way for lifting bodies and orbital gliders. A lot of his research ended up in the X-15, space shuttle and X-20 Dynasoar programs.
The real story, the actions, thoughts and feelings of the people back then, the suffering and triumphs of those involved is so much more interesting and instructive than the thin, sour soup of the pimped-out, exaggerated "science fantasy". I really start loving this channel and its somewhat subdues ways.
Redstone all the way! Built yet never killed an enemy. The US and USSR finally scared Europe out of two thousand years of royal family rivalries that led to five incredibly deadly world wars 1803-1945. I don't know for sure if that was the intent, but it was the result. In the early days the Redstone was called an Intra County Ballistic Missile, because of it's tendency to crash within sight of the launch. Luckily we had an air force transglobal fleet at that time unrivalled.
@@STho205 Yes. M.A.D. (Mutual Assured Destruction) sounds crazy but is much less crazy than C.A.D. (Constant Assured Destruction). If no nukes were invented: After millions were killed in the conquest of Japan, war would then have broken out in Europe between the Soviet Union and the West in less than 5 years.
NASA does not define the beginning of space at fifty miles. The Air Force defines it that way for their pilots who were able to get to 50 miles on wings, but not 62.
can you go deeper in to Werner von Brauns Biography? id love to see a video about the redstone rocket and the by the US prohibited first satelite of mankind. i would also enjoy a segment of how deep Werner was a part of the later spacevehicles. Especialy his role in the Saturn V Or maybe a segment of German scientists in the Soviet spaceprogramm? How they where treated and waht part of russian achivements where accualy responsible for.
Not only the first space rocket! Just google: Konrad Zuse. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941.
Wernher von Braun also worked on the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. So nazis did put people on the Moon, just not the way you imagined it.
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@@Lemonidas75 take your PERVITIN and put your Stahlhelm on 😅
"Hans, get the space suit"
i aim for the stars but SOMETIMES i hit london
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Why not? London is a toilet. And Churchill just hated Germany, it had nothing to do with that fact that Germany was National Socialist country.
GOD punish England! And I`m not even German! :)
"Once the rocket goes up, who cares where it comes down. That's not my department, said Werner von Braun "
He would have hit the stars if he was aiming towards Los Angeles.
On a few bombing missions my father as a WWII B-17 Pilot with the 463rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) told me that he use to see the mindbogglingly high contrails of the V-2 back in 1944.
Yes indeed Germany was the first in space.
Japanese had massive submarines
Americans had nukes
Germans had ballistic missiles.
Later everything was combined into one weapon system.
America has industrial capacity but most scientific knowledge came from other countries
CG Account Most Americans came from other countries.. and the biggest group were Germans.
@@illyrian44 The Japanese DID have very large submarines during WWII.
SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO!
@@illyrian44 but can a U-boat fit 2/3 plane inside of it?
So there isn't Nazi zombies on the moon ? How disappointed I truly am
Von Braun and his German team got open bill and full US resources but he needed another 25 years to reach the moon so no no nazis on the moon at least not WWII nazis
All the zombies are in Brussels these days.
Natürlich sind keine Nazi-Zombies auf dem Mond. Vertrau' mir.
But there is a giant Swastika left up there!
I just watched it and the sequel last night. Was going to say something stupid until the narrator deflated my Hope's in the first paragraph of the narrative. 🤣😐
I had no idea about any of this. The amount of things I'm learning by watching your channel is huge, thanks for the top quality content.
Just one note: "Iron Sky" was not a Hollywood production, it was done by a couple of Finns with support from the German State of Hesse (they used Frankfurt with its skyline as a stand-in for NYC)
Amazing how the V2 program is "evil" but allied bombing raids over germany are just "war".
Germany really built some interesting weapons. Far a head of the time with good engineers and people.
I must say, I have been a HUGE WW2 fanatic and Nazi historian for over 15 years. I was to the point where I believed I had seen and heard it all until I came across your channel. You have such an amazing way of telling each story, most of which I believe were lost to time. I’ve been watching your videos nonstop over the past few days. My hats off to you sir ! Well done!!
funny how the victors absorbed/seized/claimed all this advanced german technology and then kind of just took credit for everything thereafter.
finally someone, who give credits to the germans for being the first in space and put the mankind into space age. thanks for that.
This is a great channel.
And there are those that claim alcohol has no place in transport.
Germany’s Military in WW ll also had Remote Controlled Wire Guided Missiles.
An alcohol liquid engine . Hold my beer lads im going in
More like gimme' your beers. I'm going to space!
More like give me your space I'm going to beers
It All seems so easy looking at it now, but I can tell you from my limited engineering knowledge this was a awesome accomplishment for those days.
An excellent history of the early space race! THANK YOU! You destroyed a lot of myths.
"Iron Sky" had nothing to do with Hollywood but was a Finnish-Australian-German production from Timo Vuorensola.
I was born in Huntsville, Al. in '56...my Dad was a Radar Guidance Engineer teaching an Army Radar class at Redstone Arsenal. My Dad is now passed but he told me stories about meeting Werner Von Braun and the German Rocket Scientists/Engineers...those were heady days (A PhD. Engineer who recently retired from America's largest defense contractor.
Imagine the world has seen one of the biggest scale war in history for years, and suddenly you see a video of how we are all just on this ball in space of vacuum. Must have been a truly surreal feeling.
I saw a documentary with you last night, about Tojo. Enjoyed it a lot!
Great - I filmed that a couple of years ago.
can you please give us the name of that documentary?
Tojo: Japan's Razor of Fear.
Gonzalo G. ua-cam.com/video/Cmese4IzINo/v-deo.html
Dr. Felton is on some ww2 docs on Netflix as well. When I saw him I about jumped out of my seat.
0:43 Iron Sky is hardly a Hollywood production! It’s a Finnish crowdfunded film project. Hollywood would never be that innovative!
Those were surprisingly well pronounced German names. Well done!
Wow...! were those guys REALLY ahead of their time...! In 1942 they were already making plans for space travel...while at the same time down on earth they were fighting a titanic war against the Bolshevism, and carrying out at sea an enormous submarine campaign....too many huge enterprises to deal with ....
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Nazi : goes to hiding to moon
Also Nazi : *GIANT SWASTIKA*
Mark - this was a fantastic video. Your summary at the end, of the resources squandered and the comparison to the Manhattan Project, was a typically insightful account from you. Best wishes, Mal
Wow! I didn’t know they had the V2 that early!!! 🚀
Boi
@@bremnersghost948 I read in a interview with Donetz that he said Hitler told him "Prepare for War in the 1950's" Then of course that didn't happen but yeah. They'd have been the only people with ICBM's...and maybe even Nukes to put on top of them :/
@@bremnersghost948 Well, if hitler had waited until 42, the red army would've been completely mobilized, the French army would be mobilized, and the british too. He only declared war so early to catch the allies before they could fully prepare. Even when the germans invaded in 1940, the French army wasn't fully mobilized, and neither was the british.
i actual destinguish between rocket (A4) and warhead (v2) because the A4 was capable of working without a warhead and because of this was the first rocket used in space exploration. it also hat the capacity to carry early nukes (V2 warhead one ton, little boy nuke 1.1 ton).
@@bremnersghost948 - The V-2 was far from ready for mass production in 1942. In any case, as said in the video, the V-2 was not a success and with $2 billion spent was a huge waste of resources. The surface navy was largely a waste as well. They would have done better to invest more into the U-Boat fleet much earlier AND begun work on the advanced Type XX Electro Boat earlier as well.
Flat earthers will not like this video.
Erik Stenberg someone told me that the earth is flat. I told him not to talk about his mother like that. xD
It's unlikely they'll be attracted to this channel, because Dr Mark deals with facts, so it's a big red flag for them to avoid *the inconvenient truth.*
Now,now Flateartherism is a global movement.
@@justinr2564 Put your flat head against your flat screen @ 5:07 and you'll see it
I have to think a lot of that 'movement' is just a way to annoy people/join a group. It's relatively cheap and easy for them to test for themselves, just send up a weather balloon with a camera. There's much easier/cheaper ways, but it's probably the most definitive.
At 1:40, "NASA defines space as 50 miles above sea level"
Wernher Von Braun made that definition, I'm sure...
No bias there...
how about the Paris Gun?
To set the calculations correctly, they had to account for earths rotation...
Iron Sky isn't from Hollywood, it's Finnish!
@Kevin McDougall groan!
Excellent!
I learned ALL of this as a child in the early 1960's!
Sadly today, even recent college graduates have no idea how to use a library!
If it doesn't come up on google, it just doesn't exist! (for them!)
I‘m so thankful that a neutral person talks about Germany being the first nation entering space. If it was a german guy, people (especially Americans) would probably just call it propaganda.
Wow definitely not something they told us in history class, too bad, such an interesting story!
What might be more plausible than Nazis on the Moon might be the idea that some Comet pilot beat the Mach barrier in a power dive well before Chuck Yeager.
The deal with Ye4ager wasn't that he passed the speed of sound...it was that he did so in level flight...not a dive (and thus, with a gravity assist).
Fun fact: They both invented V2 and CCTVs.
They were being bombed day and night, fighting a war on 3 fronts, losing ships at sea and planes in the sky, losing ground by the day and yet they were still able to achieve feats of engineering that no other country could even dream of and only did so in the decades after due to the information and knowledge that they gathered. They had an absolutely astonishing level of engineering, truly unbelievable
Could you do a video on other German rocket-powered weapons and aircraft, such as: fighters (Me 163, Ba 349), surface-to-air missiles (Rheintochter, Wasserfall) and air-to-air weapons (Werfer-Granate 21, R4M, X-4)?
The other missile programs are quite interresting indeed.
Yes a good idea.
Iron Armenian did a ba.349 video ua-cam.com/video/r9iTDssif7g/v-deo.html
They actually had a piloted V1.
Wow, great research, I never heard that Germany put the first object in space!
Love your work Mark. Keep it coming.
I met the General Walter Dornberger in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1979 he told me that he designed the Columbia von Braun was the expert in fuel. Dornberger move to a place called El Chante close to Chapala, jalisco, I have his book written in German called Pennemunde in 1981 donated by his wife Doris.Von Braun came several times to visit him. He is the father of space officially named by the USA government, , In the future more information about German inventions will be release like the jets that could fly over more than 1000 miles per hour in those days.Martin Dygula German citizen.
(3:41) imagine you stand at the railway and see a V2 "coming by on a halftrack" (Sd.Kfz. 8 ..Sonder-Kraftfahrzeug 8) i bet u feel like a time traveler.
I’m really liking your work Mark, learning more about history than we were taught..cheers.
Mond, Mond, Ja, Ja
The History Guy, Tank Chats, and a Mark Felton Productions all in one day? Now that's a trifecta of good history, and a good day.
The V2 was also the first hypersonic man made object.
They did it earlier then that when shells from the WW1 "Paris Gun" skipped across the top of the atmosphere on their way to the target (Paris).
Nicely done, as always. It was a pleasure to watch. Good job.
3rd October 1944 a V2 came down 40 miles short of target on the farm at the bottom of my road. About a dozen people were killed and several were injured. The window opposite where I was sitting, shattered and I got a cut on my left knee. The girl two doors away received a small cut on her head. Quite scary.
Never seen the black and white footage of the earth before, very interesting, 👍
It wasn't flat even then! WOW ;)
Fascinating stories.i have heard of many before but these video's make it easy to watch and learn.
Nazis: _Create the first man-made object to enter low-Earth orbit._
Conspiracy Theorists: ThIs mUsT MeAn tHe nUtZiS HaD A BaSe oN ThE MoOn!
The Nazis havent put anything in Low earth orbit tho
Also Conspiracy Theorists: ThIs mUsT MeAn tHe nUtZiS HaD AnTi gRaViTy FlYiNg SaUcErS
it's not a conspiracy, more like a joke. Like the flat earth thing.
@@jackknall9966 It was the Imperial Germans though. The Paris gun ring a bell?
@@thedungeondelver Die Glocke tho'
Sometimes Fact turns out to be more interesting than Fiction - Great Vid!
I start hearing that intro music the moment I see your channel name pop up in my sub box.
Yet another great one. The enthusiasm in your voice really adds to the show!
mark Felton must be in the history because he make history more interesting
Nobody does history like Dr. Mark 😎
Unbelievable, The Nazi’s took more lives building the V2 than were taken by using the weapon.
Mr felton your channel is truly amazing, i have learned more with you in the past months,them reading books for ten years!! Thankyou so much!!
Thanks for using both metric and American measurements, it lets me focus on the important math!
Entering space is not the same as entering orbit.
"Space" is about 100 km up. You can go straight up
and then straight down. But entering orbit means
traveling horizontally at about 17,000 mph.
The first man in the moon is neil A. If u turn this around it will say Alien..
Ok that's funny 10points
Well as he was not from the moon then yes he was an alien
Illuminati confirmed.
Neil Armstrong backwards is:
Gnorts Mr Alien
hahahaha that's great !
Mark is the master of succinct. He deserves far more support.
Lol Iron Sky 😂😂 🌙
Iron Sky is NOT a Hollywood movie, it's a crowdfunded Scandinavian film.
@@r-saint It's still hilarious. OMG the "Sara Palin" President in there is soooo hot
@@r-saint accually finnish film and Finland is not part of scandinaviadia.
Where Berlin is actually new York😂
There’s an iron sky II movie soon I think
Also that’s the first thing I thought of when he mentioned a base on the dark side of the moon
again another excellent production!
Iron Sky not from Hollywood
Had it not been for the incredible waste of the war, the Germans could have made a successful moon mission by the 1950's. And today there would be a permanent Mars base.
Point of order: THERE IS NO DARK SIDE OF THE MOON!
What about Pink Floyd?
@@stevethomas760 There is a Pink Floyd!
This is the video that’s going to go viral! Im calling it now!
Great videos thank you for your knowledge 🙏
It's the master race in outer space!
Stalking Horseu mean the meth driven inbred race
Simply astonishing...! I can hardly believe that these guys actually reached outer space in October 1942, while the rest of the world only had eyes for what was going on in El Alamein, Stalingrad...No one was aware they had over their heads this new threat of supersonic rockets ! That von Braun was a real genius, and we should be glad he and his team chose to collaborate with the Americans, discarding Stalin's offers !
Great video. You’ve earned another subscriber.
Another quality video. Thanks Mark.
Germany got tremendous help from Robert Goddard's rocketry work. Goddard invented the self-cooling, gimbaled, liquid fuel rocket engine and was launching impressive rockets during the 1930's. Germany followed his work very closely. Goddard had about 200 patents on rocket developments. Then in 1936, Germany surpassed Goddard and cut off all contact with him. Goddard approached the US Army at that point with his rocket developments. The Army laughed, then showed him the door. After the war, US Army officers asked German engineers how they came up with the V2. They replied, "Go ask your own Doctor Goddard." The US Army officers replied, "Who?"
Goddard invented rockets, but Germans like Werner Von Braum engineered the hell out of it and scaled it up, greatly.
I think Nazi UFO is not complete fantasy.
U can build airplane based on "centrifugal turbine" and "coanda effect". (g: Coanda effect UAV)
Great video Mark always the best thank you so much for the knowledge
You should do a follow-up on Eugen Sänger, an SS scientist who paved the way for lifting bodies and orbital gliders. A lot of his research ended up in the X-15, space shuttle and X-20 Dynasoar programs.
Your presentations are so very credible.
The real story, the actions, thoughts and feelings of the people back then, the suffering and triumphs of those involved is so much more interesting and instructive than the thin, sour soup of the pimped-out, exaggerated "science fantasy".
I really start loving this channel and its somewhat subdues ways.
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I would like to see more on the A-9.
Excellent, as usual.
👍👍👍👍👍
This might upset the flat earthers :)
Interesting and excellent video above the normal. Great job!
Hey, maybe we could COMBINE the V2 with the Manhattan Project!
ICBM Intensifies.
We already did it, you are some 59 years late.
This is what Wernher von Braun did, he developed ICBMs for the US
Redstone all the way! Built yet never killed an enemy. The US and USSR finally scared Europe out of two thousand years of royal family rivalries that led to five incredibly deadly world wars 1803-1945. I don't know for sure if that was the intent, but it was the result.
In the early days the Redstone was called an Intra County Ballistic Missile, because of it's tendency to crash within sight of the launch. Luckily we had an air force transglobal fleet at that time unrivalled.
@@STho205 Yes. M.A.D. (Mutual Assured Destruction) sounds crazy but is much less crazy than C.A.D. (Constant Assured Destruction). If no nukes were invented: After millions were killed in the conquest of Japan, war would then have broken out in Europe between the Soviet Union and the West in less than 5 years.
Excellent video can't believe that you get thumbs down for your work.
Haters gonna hate..
NASA does not define the beginning of space at fifty miles. The Air Force defines it that way for their pilots who were able to get to 50 miles on wings, but not 62.
Love your videos Professor!
can you go deeper in to Werner von Brauns Biography? id love to see a video about the redstone rocket and the by the US prohibited first satelite of mankind.
i would also enjoy a segment of how deep Werner was a part of the later spacevehicles. Especialy his role in the Saturn V
Or maybe a segment of German scientists in the Soviet spaceprogramm? How they where treated and waht part of russian achivements where accualy responsible for.
Well rick Why not visit a library and do your own research?
I had thought that railway guns had achieved this much earlier, the shells were bloody massive too.
Now this is epic.
If Germany had waited 5 years to invade Poland, but continued their advanced weapons programs, the Allies probably would have lost!
OH MY GOD! This is F&cking Incredible!!!! I Had No Idea!!
Thank You so much for making this amazing video!!!!!
Excellent presentation 👍
Von Braun’s biography is well worth a read
Dogsoldier 1950
He was the greatest technical mind of the 20th Century. ...
Hollywood should make a biopic about him. Plus Christophe Waltz would be ideal to play him
Why have we never seen photos and film of this space project before?
We have , just search youtube, it's just you was never looking for it. I had it backed up on cd for years
You probably just didn't look
Shhhh... it's a SECRET.
Not only the first space rocket! Just google: Konrad Zuse. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941.
4:36 Von Braun is about to palm the US rocket budget, he can barely hide his jubilation.