NASA's Top Rocket Scientist Had a Controversial Past

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  • @Newsthink
    @Newsthink  2 роки тому +18

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      @PLATOLOSOPHY 2 роки тому +2

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    • @charlesbrightman4237
      @charlesbrightman4237 2 роки тому

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    • @thequantumalchemist2965
      @thequantumalchemist2965 2 роки тому +3

      Okay, since yooo toobe cens or s anything related to any *science* behind it(not even the mission itself which I not dared mention directly for algorhytm reasons already) *this badly* I can only conclude that this entire mission was indeed a *fake* and never happened. Okay case closed, got my final answer to it finaly. Hence will be my last visit on this channel too sadly, I can do well well without propa ganda.

    • @thequantumalchemist2965
      @thequantumalchemist2965 2 роки тому +5

      You know what is even harder for me to believe as a scientist? How humans were able to penetrate the Van der Vaals Belt and come back with 0 radiation damage.

    • @thequantumalchemist2965
      @thequantumalchemist2965 2 роки тому +4

      ^^ That sadly is literaly about the only fraction of the comment I can get through this dystopian cens or ing machine... Clearly, certain powers at work do not want anyone to even go as far as mentioning or questioning any *science* behind it. And that alone speaks volumes and answers my question as to if this entire "mission" ever happened or not. Clearly, it did not.

  • @breawycker
    @breawycker Рік тому +69

    "When the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!" Says Werner von Braun

  • @NRC308
    @NRC308 Рік тому +134

    Wernher von Braun needs his own movie like Oppenheimer

    • @andersask5503
      @andersask5503 Рік тому +6

      yes, i would love a serious movie about him. Not those cheesy "History" channel takes. And what was the deal with him and walt disney? They became super close.. and we all know Walts and his perspective on the jewish ppl. Seems a little shady imo

    • @williet.3058
      @williet.3058 10 місяців тому +2

      We already have him (as Jurgen Voller) in the latest Indy Jones disaster :D

    • @alivosohg8375
      @alivosohg8375 8 місяців тому

      👍👍

    • @astroluke55
      @astroluke55 5 місяців тому +1

      I have been saying this too! I totally agree. Nolan would knock it out of the park too!

    • @Snowflame512
      @Snowflame512 4 місяці тому

      @@williet.3058hey! I liked that movie! At least it was better than Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Temple of Doom!

  • @kasession
    @kasession 2 роки тому +89

    I had a lot of family in Huntsville. As a kid, I got shipped there in the summer to hang out with cousins. It wasn't until I was an adult, that I got into history. When I learned that Von Braun lived in Huntsville, I said...OMG...For all I know, we may have driven by his house.
    History is rich and complex. Thanks for expanding it just a little bit more. 👍🏿

  • @TwinXBlaze
    @TwinXBlaze 2 роки тому +83

    now i understood those ''where were NASA scientists during WWII'' memes

    • @Света-у9ц
      @Света-у9ц 3 місяці тому +3

      Только теперь?Разве это не является общеизвестным?

    • @alpharius2omegaboogaloo384
      @alpharius2omegaboogaloo384 3 місяці тому +2

      @@Света-у9цThat’s what I thought too, but I suppose some people just overlook things they’re taught in school.

  • @wcg19891
    @wcg19891 2 роки тому +180

    As an engineer who worked at MSFC NASA n Huntsville in the 90s, I CRINGE every time I hear the term “rocket scientist “. These Germans were rocket engineers and I was able to meet one who gave a speech at NASA.
    Scientists think about things. Engineers do things.

    • @metaps3922
      @metaps3922 2 роки тому +5

      Perfect 👌🏾

    • @ghostwriter1415
      @ghostwriter1415 2 роки тому +6

      @ Jack, Science is potential energy, engineering is the kinetic result of scientific thinking. If Dr. von Braun were confined to a wheelchair, he would still be a great rocket scientist. Trust me, I think about $hit all of the time, and then I get other people to do all of the heavy lifting for me.

    • @wcg19891
      @wcg19891 2 роки тому +14

      The funny thing about your comment is that I’m an older engineer now near retirement. And use a wheelchair. But I’m still an engineer, not a scientist. When I said engineers “do things “, I mean they design, analyze and test things like rockets.
      I was only being somewhat disparaging of scientists just for fun. In my mind the actual science behind rocketry was well before Von Braun. It included people from Newton, Navier, Joules, Carnot, Kelvin and many others that worked out the physics and equations that Von Braun and engineers today use when developing rockets.

    • @dougball328
      @dougball328 2 роки тому +2

      To add to the comments: Scientists strive to understand the world as it is. Engineers strive to make the world the way we want it to be.

    • @dougball328
      @dougball328 2 роки тому +2

      @@wcg19891 Hans Bethe of Manhattan Project fame (along with Morrison) said something similar. The physics was understood. The Manhattan Project was an engineering project, not a scientific one. I'm not smart enough to challenge either of those gentlemen !

  • @wcg19891
    @wcg19891 2 роки тому +64

    According to one book during development l, the V2 was falling apart as it came down. The engineers wanted to see it happen so decided that they would target an open field and stand directly at the point they were targeting reasoning that they knew they weren’t that accurate so should be safe.
    That day they were pretty accurate and the rocket came down within a hundred yards of them. Fortunately for them just far enough they weren’t killed. But still pretty funny. Or at least I think so!

    • @dougball328
      @dougball328 2 роки тому +6

      von Braun often joked that their goal was to make it more dangerous to be in the target area than the launch area!

    • @Света-у9ц
      @Света-у9ц 3 місяці тому

      @@dougball328 аж так опасно находиться в месте запуска, что после войны все страны мира стремились заполучить,а потом сделать как можно больше ракет.И дали ракетчикам пожизненный иммунитет от военных преступлений, не имеющих срока давности (остальных нацистов вешают до сих пор).А что касается тех мест, куда падают ракеты,-недавно один житель Харькова поделился впечатлениями ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxJNkKb6ByooA6IpWvqZQytsVPAhRCaNY5 Впечатления страшные.Лучше там не находиться:(

    • @Света-у9ц
      @Света-у9ц 3 місяці тому

      Я читала у Дорнбергера:"Раздавался крик"В укрытие!",и мы прятались за ближайшую тоненькую ёлочку.Это было единственное наше укрытие".Но хватало.А стреляли они над морем.Если б они стреляли по суше,то как бы они успели добежать в точку предполагаемого падения?Сравни скорость ракеты и скорость человека!А потом,когда ракеты стали бить на 100-300 км,скажешь,тоже они туда бежали пешком, в точку приземления?Ха-ха!

  • @bradfordrusso7480
    @bradfordrusso7480 2 роки тому +117

    I saw him, live. Lecturing at Millersville University. (Just outside of Lancaster, PA.) When I was in High School Physics class. This was 1974.
    He spoke of hopes to create new metalic alloys in the absence of gravity (out in space). The goal was to make super-conductors at room temperature. Which was expected to allow them to create computer memory more dense than the human brain. I suspect our present day "thumb drives" or "flash drives" have achieved this storage capacity.

    • @kushclarkkent6669
      @kushclarkkent6669 Рік тому +3

      You have a great memory!

    • @bradfordrusso7480
      @bradfordrusso7480 Рік тому +7

      @@kushclarkkent6669 Thank you. Now in a fit of ego, I will quote Bugs Bunny: "Yes I know it. ... I can't help it.".
      This is from an episode "What's Opera, Doc?" Where Bugs and Elmer Fudd are acting out a Wagnerian opera. Bugs in drag, is deceiving Elmer -- who is smitten by his beauty. Elmer sings: "Oh bwoom-hilda ... you're so wov-wee." Then Bugs toys with him. "Yes, I know it. I can't help it."

    • @protipskiptoendofvideoandr286
      @protipskiptoendofvideoandr286 Рік тому +1

      Nope. Only super computers have reached that point so far.

    • @joydip9044
      @joydip9044 26 днів тому

      Did anyone boo him for being nazi once ?

  • @wcg19891
    @wcg19891 2 роки тому +24

    The production was originally with the engineering development at Peenemunde on the Baltic Sea. The Allies got word and bombed it. Due to that the Nazis moved production to the Nordhausen cave complex and started using slave labor instead of German labor due to secrecy concerns. But the V2 had many operational failures. Nobody knows how many of these slave laborers threw in dirt or pebbles deep in the rocket.

  • @RevMikeBlack
    @RevMikeBlack 2 роки тому +30

    Born in the year of Sputnik, I grew up with the space program. Apollo was discussed in school every day for two years prior to the moon landing. The White House and NASA propaganda was hot & heavy at that time. Although I was a top science student and the NASA liaison for my school, I NEVER remember hearing of von Braun until well after the Apollo program had ended. His name just didn't come up very often because the focus was on the astronauts, the mission and the science. In addition, we were taught that absolutely no astronauts drank alcohol, smoked tobacco or participated in promiscuous activity. In other words, the message was always tightly controlled and von Braun was kept almost as invisible as Soviet Chief Designer Sergei Korolev.

    • @JC-xq3jl
      @JC-xq3jl 2 роки тому

      I remember it differently. He was quite the media darling at times but he did not get the celebrity of the astronauts. He was the evil genius behind the scenes while the astronauts were hailed as All-American heroes. But quite honestly, the astronauts were nothing more than trained monkeys with a few exceptions.

    • @Света-у9ц
      @Света-у9ц 3 місяці тому

      Really?А как же те кадры, где он с Кеннеди гуляет по космодрому, или то, что показывают в некоторых документалках,как его на руках носят после успешного запуска "Аполло"? (Впрочем, у него вообще самая противоречивая в мире биография, я уже привыкла)

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    @layersnmasks Рік тому +6

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  • @leonardgibney2997
    @leonardgibney2997 2 роки тому +27

    I'm puzzled by the fact von Braun never (if I'm correct) attended debriefing conferences after Apollo missions, at least not the public ones. You'd think the father of rocketry would.

    • @ajoyibugaroyib6355
      @ajoyibugaroyib6355 Рік тому

      Because he wasn't an actor to tell the public a lie about fake moon landing.

    • @blakjewellio1407
      @blakjewellio1407 11 місяців тому

      Perhaps he thought he didn’t deserve it given his past

    • @soopahsoopah
      @soopahsoopah 11 місяців тому

      @@blakjewellio1407 Yeah I don't think so. he was pretty over that.

  • @atombom8214
    @atombom8214 2 роки тому +7

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  • @kenw.1112
    @kenw.1112 2 роки тому +92

    Von Braun was a friggen Genius!! He made things happen when it came to Rockets! Brilliant man and well respected!!!

    • @natedb99
      @natedb99 2 роки тому

      Yeah, he was brilliant… he was still a nazi tho

    • @destroyingangel14
      @destroyingangel14 2 роки тому

      Both Von Braun bio’s... cite that he had the idea to launch a manned - rocket with a capsule , land in the sea .. even before 1948.
      Octangenarian Library Aid commenting about on the ground talk around ... Roswell I cede the;
      “ We knew it had to be something from the White Sands Missile Base....”

    • @destroyingangel14
      @destroyingangel14 2 роки тому

      Incedent

    • @rileyjoseph3488
      @rileyjoseph3488 2 роки тому

      Well respected? He was a member of the SS and invented one of the nazis most deadly rockets and is linked to the death of thousands.

    • @10secondsrule
      @10secondsrule 2 роки тому +3

      I bet you are a musk fan.😂

  • @marsspacex6065
    @marsspacex6065 2 роки тому +80

    Von Braun is probably one of the 5 or 6 most important people responsible for Apollo not the only person. 400,000 people worked on Apollo the vast majority were american.

    • @JC-xq3jl
      @JC-xq3jl 2 роки тому +14

      ... and young. The average age of those who worked on the Apollo program was incredibly young. NASA then got old and fat. Let's hope it emerges again with some youth and vitality. And I say this as someone who is pushing 60.

    • @M.EngelhART
      @M.EngelhART 2 роки тому +12

      But Von Braun Was And Is The Biggest Pioneer In General, Cause He Was The Pulse Generator And His Rockets The First In Space, Also With High Speed. Everything Needs A Beginning - Starting Something New Is Always The Most Difficult Thing.

    • @swaythegod5812
      @swaythegod5812 2 роки тому +1

      This is American white wash of a European
      Genius von Braun lead the whole project and was head of nasa he is one of most important people in history period he made his dream a reality

    • @noname52768
      @noname52768 2 роки тому +8

      He was the chief architect

    • @audcolores
      @audcolores 2 роки тому +7

      If i will bring 5 million homies to work on a similar project. And without the “mind”, will finish with a tractor rocket thingy bomb. So give credit accordingly.

  • @DanielGomez-gw4kt
    @DanielGomez-gw4kt 8 місяців тому +5

    Newsthink Dr Wernher Von Braun wasn't really controversial, he was an innocent and talented engineering scientists and genius.
    Because ever since he read a book about rockets and going into space, he had the ambition and he really wanted to make it all a reality. The truth is throughout his life, he had been fascinated and willing to build rocket ships to go into space. I also do believe that he never wanted to be involved with conflict and war, and I really do believe he was one of them that never believed in conflict and war.
    I also do believe that in his vision, he never wanted to design and make rocket fuel for conflict and war. He wanted his ideas as peaceful purposes, because he really wanted to use his ideas and visions for space only. Because his number one dream and goal was to build rocket ships to go into space, and he hoped that spaceflight will be the future of traveling into outer space. As well as exploration to go to the Moon and even the red planet Mars.
    I really believe that Dr Wernher Von Braun really wanted to do those ideas, and that they were part of his vision of space travel and space exploration. and he wanted to build rocket ships to do all of that.
    And even though he worked for the nazis, and I'm very happy that you've explained in this video. Because later on when he was still with the nazis, he became a prisoner himself. Because they were evidence that he was tortured in prison, and when he was released. He wore a very big bandage on his arm. And whenever I would see that picture, I do believe that they probably broke his arm. The Nazis that is, because I really believe those guys had somehow tortured him in prison.
    Because I do believe later on Von Braun realized that he was making weapons for the Nazis, and I believe he was scarred and affected by it so badly. And I do believe he was ashamed of himself for making weapons, that he really wanted to make rocket ships to go into outer space. So I do believe at some point later on he wanted to escape the Nazis, and vowing himself never to make weapons ever again.
    Another thing I do believe that he told some of those Nazis that he really wanted to make rocket ships to go into space and that's it, but they didn't care of what he really wanted to do. And I do believe that they forced him to make weapons anyway, and if Von Braun didn't cooperate and didn't follow their orders. He too would be their prisoner, in which he was later on during World War II. And I do believe they did torture him in prison, forcing him to make weapons for the Nazis.
    Luckily when the war was over, Von Braun was released out of prison. I believe he was worried at first if he would be arrested by Americans, but luckily they did not arrest him. They had been fascinated of his scientist skills, and engineering talents to build rockets.
    And so in a way I believe the Americans really saved and rescued him away from the Nazis. And so Dr Wernher Von Braun had a new and better life to make his ideas and visions into a reality in the United States.
    And then former President Eisenhower formed NASA in the late 1950s, and decided that Dr Wernher Von Braun should be the lead technician, engineer and scientists of all of the rockets they would build at NASA.
    Dr Wernher Von Braun was really a genius and a true visionary, as well as a dreamer. Because for all of his life he wanted to make spaceflight a reality with space travel and space exploration, with powerful rocket ships that he wanted to design and build.
    Alive today, I believe Dr Wernher Von Braun would continue his ideas and visions to focus only two outer space

    • @stacksmalacks8826
      @stacksmalacks8826 3 дні тому

      Stop with the historical revisionism. Von Braun was a Nazi, an enthusiastic one who only tried to hide the fact after the war. He wasn't innocent by any means, was more than happy to use that slave labour at Nordhausen

  • @feraudyh
    @feraudyh 7 місяців тому +3

    When I was a tee,ager we would get the visit of WvB's niece. She told us that she did not see her uncle often, but when she did, he was always accompanied by half a dozen or more bodyguards.

    • @chrandre21
      @chrandre21 6 місяців тому

      Did he have any plans for future rockets. If so where did those plans end up?

  • @wcg19891
    @wcg19891 2 роки тому +16

    The V2 was called the A4 by the engineers. A stands for aggregate which referred to the entire rocket with all its systems instead of the individual components. Only later did the government refer to it as vengeance.

  • @theophiluslondon258
    @theophiluslondon258 2 роки тому +22

    Really well presented and researched! Could you please do a video about how parts of the internet are getting deleted by search engine companies?

    • @metaps3922
      @metaps3922 2 роки тому +2

      Really!?

    • @dumdum5520
      @dumdum5520 2 роки тому

      That explains why google search results have not been so great since the big C hit
      But why? Whats their goal from doing this?

  • @wcg19891
    @wcg19891 2 роки тому +21

    Of course von Braun saw the tunnels. The chief engineer would always be involved in production.

    • @MrJm323
      @MrJm323 Рік тому

      I don't know, was he the designated production engineer, or was he head of the design team? Do you really think the design bureau was located in the tunnels? He visited the tunnels, he didn't have his office there.
      But, notice, that none of the virtue signalers have ever said what Von Braun was supposed to have done to prevent the atrocities or to help the victims.
      "Of course he saw them!"
      And, ....so?

  • @pascal2085
    @pascal2085 Рік тому +27

    I honestly do believe that von Braun was not a Nazi. He was an opportunist and not a ideologist, his goal was too engineer a rocket.

    • @williet.3058
      @williet.3058 10 місяців тому +14

      It would be very naive to think he wasn't complicit in such things as using forced labor. Maybe he didn't care, but not caring doesn't absolve you of war crimes.

    • @jonnymcgrath4816
      @jonnymcgrath4816 5 місяців тому +2

      Ain’t no way you didn’t question how the scar in his face meant. Only Nazi would no why they had those cuts lol

    • @Света-у9ц
      @Света-у9ц 3 місяці тому

      @@williet.3058 рабов много -он один.На всех фото рабы здоровее его.Он по сравнению с ними хрупкий, слабенький.Мне за него страшно:как бы не накинулись, не побили. Хорошо, что не добрались.Я б его собой заслонила, если могла.

    • @slizher
      @slizher Місяць тому

      Kekked. The naive belief that racists can't do anything valuable is touching. He was who he was. As we all see him. ;)

    • @marvin2678
      @marvin2678 Місяць тому

      @@williet.3058 it does

  • @rayoflight62
    @rayoflight62 2 роки тому +22

    As a Space enthusiast, for years I have studied the role and the deeds of all most important enablers of the "Conquest" of Space.
    And my impression is, that Von Braun wasn't enthusiast of the German war machine, nor it was interested in politics and politicians. He defined the rocket core concept, that a turbopump is necessary to inject the fuel into the combustion chamber - at a pressure higher than the pressure of the engine exhaust, which allowed his rockets to lift tons of weight off the ground, instead of the few kilos achieved with rockets without turbopumps. The Saturn V lifted 100 tons in low Earth orbit, i.e. all the machinery, equipment and fuel necessary to go to the Moon and return safely to Earth...

    • @JC-xq3jl
      @JC-xq3jl 2 роки тому +8

      I disagree. He was very enthusiastic to use his "toys" for Germany's cause in WWII. He could have easily bugged out for Switzerland or elsewhere during the war, but he didn't. HIs actions then speak volumes. WWII gave him a laboratory and guinea pigs. He reveled in it. What he did later was great, but let's not forget the human toil on which it was built.

    • @dougjames4498
      @dougjames4498 2 роки тому

      @@JC-xq3jl He was also well aware of the slave labor used to build the Nazi war machine.

    • @leonardgibney2997
      @leonardgibney2997 2 роки тому +1

      As a space enthusiast how far do you think man will get in it?

    • @wiliamaquiles2084
      @wiliamaquiles2084 2 роки тому +1

      @@JC-xq3jl lol

    • @Raubabbau
      @Raubabbau Рік тому +1

      For someone who was politically uninterested, he at least made it to SS Sturmbandführer. You had to volunteer for the SS. A Sturmbandführer is equivalent to a mayor in the US Army. And this promotion came through Himmler himself. He will definitely have tried hard. According to prisoners, he visited Nordhausen and Mittelbau Dora concentration camps at least 6 times.

  • @sietsedegrande213
    @sietsedegrande213 2 роки тому +16

    22 hours after upload, 6k views. What a shame

    • @Newsthink
      @Newsthink  2 роки тому +5

      I know, I hope it continues to do better. How did you find this video - did you see it on your recommended feed or home page?

    • @sietsedegrande213
      @sietsedegrande213 2 роки тому +6

      @@Newsthink I saw this video in my subscription feed

    • @constantinaurel
      @constantinaurel 2 роки тому +1

      @@Newsthink me too

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      @shaileshgunjal2420 2 роки тому +5

      @@Newsthink I have subscribed to this channel bcoz of their video on TSMC. And thus i got to this video

    • @incessantnotions
      @incessantnotions 2 роки тому +1

      @@Newsthink For what it's worth, it popped up in my subscription feed as well. I don't have UA-cam app notifications turned on but when I sign in and check my Subscriptions tab, I always see your new uploads come up whenever you post them.

  • @motherslove686
    @motherslove686 Рік тому +4

    We need to understand one thing! Engineers or scientists put their best efforts to fulfill tasks assigned by higher authorities. JUST because their creations were used for Evil purpose does not mean the man is evil

    • @thenightwatchman1598
      @thenightwatchman1598 Рік тому

      ah yes. and we cant blame those scientists for making faulty vaccines. it was all the DEAs fault :p.

    • @gabrielemeka448
      @gabrielemeka448 24 дні тому

      @motherslove686 Making a weapon knowing it's only goal is to kill innocent people isn't evil?

  • @abba3629
    @abba3629 7 місяців тому +2

    Wernher Von Braun. Rocket Scientist🚀

  • @mariaorsic9763
    @mariaorsic9763 8 місяців тому

    Really, really, wonderful and fair perspective on Von Braun. Thank you!

    • @HagenArndt
      @HagenArndt 6 місяців тому

      Maria from the Haunebu

  • @titicoqui
    @titicoqui 2 роки тому +2

    so well done

  • @RetroFan
    @RetroFan 4 місяці тому +1

    He was a good man.

  • @zoolookers
    @zoolookers 2 роки тому +1

    Amazing videos!

  • @trevorwalker3058
    @trevorwalker3058 2 роки тому +6

    I love your perspective in this video it’s fair thanks 🙏 for the info this changes the way I look at life

  • @heinpereboom5521
    @heinpereboom5521 Рік тому +3

    No one knows exactly what von Braun was thinking.
    You can call someone a war criminal, but in that fascist regime any wrong word meant the death penalty.
    Of course there were forced labourers, but what could you have done?
    Someone who has worked in a fascist environment knows exactly what this means and how it feels.

  • @shaileshgunjal2420
    @shaileshgunjal2420 2 роки тому +6

    Is the title of this video right ?

    • @theelephantintheroom69
      @theelephantintheroom69 2 роки тому +5

      It can be considered correct, since we also say we collectively sent mankind to the moon. It's a sort of figurative manner of word choice, but you could argue that Neil and Buzz going to the moon did send part of NASA there.
      Edit: unless you mean the "Nazi" part, in which case you need to watch tbe video before asking lol

    • @shaileshgunjal2420
      @shaileshgunjal2420 2 роки тому +1

      @@theelephantintheroom69 I was right. They changed the title.

  • @coopersheldon762
    @coopersheldon762 Рік тому +3

    很好的解说,感谢分享😀

    • @stebbi2019
      @stebbi2019 Рік тому

      Great comment young Sheldon

  • @cesarenriquez8385
    @cesarenriquez8385 Рік тому +2

    Don’t forget about his warning.

  • @reformedstoic1581
    @reformedstoic1581 11 місяців тому +3

    Psalms 19:1 "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”

  • @timothydudley3106
    @timothydudley3106 8 місяців тому +1

    Werner von Braun was a great scientist he was the head of nasa yet he would listen to others ideas and never felt he was better the other scientists infact the lunar medial wasn’t his idea but when it was brought to him by an American scientist he listened and used his idea and that is how we were able to put a man on the moon if he wasn’t a great leader for nasa we would have never put an astronaut on the moon great job by Werner vin Braun!

  • @wcg19891
    @wcg19891 2 роки тому +15

    Oddly and tragically more people died making the V2 weapon than were killed from its use

  • @arunmoses2197
    @arunmoses2197 Рік тому +3

    You should have mentioned that in his book "The Mars Project", he said that an elected official on Mars would be called the "Elon"

    • @blakjewellio1407
      @blakjewellio1407 11 місяців тому

      Is that really true

    • @arunmoses2197
      @arunmoses2197 11 місяців тому

      @@blakjewellio1407 Yes it's really quite fascinating because it could be true for a future Mars colony.

  • @antso1290
    @antso1290 Рік тому +2

    Outer space is fiction, the firmament is real. He acknowledged it in his tombstone, PSalms 19:1

  • @bendreed9
    @bendreed9 2 роки тому +8

    Grew up in the Huntsville, AL area where von Braun worked at NASA...this has been very informative.

  • @joeharris3878
    @joeharris3878 Рік тому +1

    The developers of the V2, Wasserfal, Redstone, Jupiter and Saturn weren't scientists. They were engineers.

  • @winniethepooh_june4_1989
    @winniethepooh_june4_1989 2 роки тому +1

    Is there anyway that i can get brilliant membership for free?

    • @Newsthink
      @Newsthink  2 роки тому +1

      You can if you sign up with my link - you’ll have access to some of the courses but not all

    • @winniethepooh_june4_1989
      @winniethepooh_june4_1989 2 роки тому +1

      @@Newsthink Thanks for the reply.

  • @StuartAhrens-b4n
    @StuartAhrens-b4n 4 місяці тому

    What a great man. American people never thought of this. But it's funny how many people worked on the rockets from Germany.

  • @jerryfagansr9983
    @jerryfagansr9983 Місяць тому +1

    Von Braun was the Elon of the early space program. He also warned of a fake Allen invasion on his death bed..😂 For Real, look it up..

  • @roo2127
    @roo2127 2 роки тому +12

    1) It was very well known of Von Braun's past in WWII. Not sure why this vid even presents this as while he was alive we all knew about it.
    2) Yeah, of course he went south to surrender to the U.S. as surrendering to the Soviet Union was borderline suicide. Not shrewd in anyway just sensible if one wanted to live.
    I am guessing the presenter has some narrative to push as the same type of circumstances carry on today in oppressive countries such as CHina where one serves on behalf of the families well being or to keep from endangering them. The obvious escapes this presenter .

    • @Newsthink
      @Newsthink  2 роки тому +5

      Actually when von Braun was alive not many knew the extent of his past. It was only after his death that news came out.
      “As his long-time press person, Ed Buckbee, notes in Chasing the Moon, von Braun had received few such inquiries.” www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/chasing-moon-wernher-von-braun-and-nazis/

    • @roo2127
      @roo2127 2 роки тому +5

      @@Newsthink I see where you got the "not widely known" source from and I understand that you are quoting the source.
      I think it's fair to be critical for accuracy though. I was very young when he was alive and I knew about his SS past then as well as many of my friends in grade school. Now to be fair I was a military brat and such topics were often spoken of as the time was when rockets were still being launched in to space and our family was soon stationed overseas in West Germany a year before his death.
      Maybe general public did not know but for my context in general many knew.
      One thing though, in your vid Von Braun was on what appeared to be the Dick Cavitt show admitting on national television that yes he was invited to the Nazi party yes? I'm unsure of how many viewers were tuned in during that time but would that not counter the claim that many did not know while he was alive?
      Regardless, video overall was good despite my issues with 2 items.

    • @DavidLamb-zm2gb
      @DavidLamb-zm2gb Рік тому +1

      ​@@NewsthinkIt's called propaganda,and lying.

  • @torbjornkampe6129
    @torbjornkampe6129 Рік тому +3

    I have a relative who was a good friend of Verner von Braun, his last name is Winkler. exactly what my grandfather's mother's surname was also called. Winkler and Werner von Braun were really good friends and their teacher in rocketry was called Dr ohbars I hope the last name was correct. Winkler and Verner von Braun and their other relatives are also named Winkler and von Braun, although it was in the Luftwaffe where they flew henkel 111. for me, it's just history that happened a long time ago. it's only 0.2% of the people who argue about what happened 80 to 90 years ago, have a pathetic clean statement. life goes on i wonder when we land on pluto they are fun aren't they.

    • @williet.3058
      @williet.3058 10 місяців тому

      So.. should we forget all about N.zis and just repeat the same mistake over and over?

  • @theronsimmonsawakened1891
    @theronsimmonsawakened1891 Рік тому +1

    Continue this into the Haunebu. This is public knowledge now. 1952 D.C. flyover.

  • @rumbleinthebumble8180
    @rumbleinthebumble8180 9 місяців тому +1

    Interesting. I don't disagree with pretty much all of it. Curious

  • @angelina6543
    @angelina6543 2 роки тому +5

    And he was inspired by Yugoslavian scientist

  • @TheSnowballEarth
    @TheSnowballEarth 6 місяців тому

    "I aim for the stars but sometimes I hit London!" ~ Wernher von Braun

  • @happening2023
    @happening2023 2 роки тому +2

    Niel Armstrong the 1st man landed on moon. But those scientist are the greatest of all.

  • @3rD_LaW
    @3rD_LaW 2 роки тому +1

    Hi Cindy 👋

  • @Caldeira198
    @Caldeira198 2 роки тому +8

    This is inspiring

  • @jesse75
    @jesse75 Місяць тому

    Braun said he went to the crash in Roswell in 1947.

  • @iarahatyt
    @iarahatyt 11 місяців тому

    This is very nice community. ❤❤

  • @richardwells4370
    @richardwells4370 Рік тому +2

    Yeh We all know that Werner was a German genius scientist during WW2 but without him the USA wouldn’t have got to the moon

  • @karlk.579
    @karlk.579 2 роки тому +6

    ,,The good man say‘s ,Sorry‘ for the mistakes, that he made in the past. The better man corrects them!!‘‘
    - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • @blakjewellio1407
    @blakjewellio1407 11 місяців тому

    I would hope that he saw his work as a type of atonement for what happened something to move humanity forward rather than hold it back

  • @VinnyUnion
    @VinnyUnion Рік тому +1

    Not a controversial, but a glorious one!

  • @mindblowtimes
    @mindblowtimes 11 місяців тому

    His dream was make rockets to land into the moon! Mission accomplished!😂

  • @jakerobles1669
    @jakerobles1669 3 місяці тому

    He was still a great brain what would u do set man back because of his past

  • @hiddenname9809
    @hiddenname9809 Рік тому +1

    If you didn't have a controversial past, I feel bad for you.

    • @keittomaster
      @keittomaster Рік тому

      But there is a difference between being a literal nazi and having e.g. skipped school a few times

  • @christophercohen8712
    @christophercohen8712 4 місяці тому

    Von Braun hid his rocket design papers in a mine

  • @thegamexpert4830
    @thegamexpert4830 Рік тому +3

    Robert Goddard: *crying in the corner*

    • @Dinurt11
      @Dinurt11 Рік тому

      Robert Goddard was a liar who plagiarized his work. What you get for liars you're an idiot not an expert

  • @MrEric2cu
    @MrEric2cu Рік тому +1

    If Hitler had the same knowledge about rockets that Von Braun possessed, America would have welcomed him with open arms as well. America had one goal. Bring Von Braun to America before Russia takes him. It paid off. We reached the moon first with his Saturn rocket. It simply proves that no matter how much we scream about the inhumanities of the world, there's only one master. Greed. So sing your songs to save the polar bear. Hold your televised stadium concert to save the rain forest. Travel across the world to plant rice to save the world from starvation. In the end It's the golden rule. Those that have the gold, make the rules.

    • @martinhahnheuser4752
      @martinhahnheuser4752 3 дні тому

      "The man with the gold, makes the rules." So true. Unfortunately if Elon's falcon heavy can't get to the moon, neither could Von Braun's rockets, even A Saturn. There's less than 2% of the machine left to hit an orbital height, a bit much too ask it to head off on another 250,000 miles. Like asking your Tesla to go from 500km out of LA to NY on 2% of a full charge. Here's how Von Braun thought reaching the moon could work....
      ua-cam.com/video/5JJL8CUfF-o/v-deo.html
      In other words, using all the fuel to reach escape velocity is not viable. Build and set off rocket from space and arrive and return via shuttle.

  • @Foxrich99
    @Foxrich99 Рік тому

    Once ze rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
    "Zats not my department" says Wernher von Braun

  • @konstantinorlov5286
    @konstantinorlov5286 Рік тому +3

    What a morally bankrupt and shallow conclusion drawn at the end of the video. 2+2=4, not sometimes 5, because "someone likes space". Unbelievable example of mental gymnastics. You asked a question - "How a nazi became an American Hero?", and answered it with "It's complicated and not black and white". I guess it is a matter of a perspective. For someone who uses an oil barrel as a toilet while slowly rotting in a mine, or concentration camp the issue becomes much less blurred. But if it gets us to the moon - then whatever. Let's call it "not black and white".

    • @TheSastoke
      @TheSastoke Рік тому

      Exactly man, these comments are sickening, its amazing the amount of excuses people have to justify admiring a man like this

    • @thenightwatchman1598
      @thenightwatchman1598 Рік тому

      American pragmatism is a moral cancer. optics are more important than principle.

    • @williet.3058
      @williet.3058 10 місяців тому

      The problem is making him a hero, not letting him work on the rockets

  • @scottsuttan2123
    @scottsuttan2123 Рік тому +1

    Thanks to Russian help pre operation Barbarossa the father of rocketry was a Russian
    When Russians looked at V1 they laughed at how sadly engineered it was

    • @kerim.s8801
      @kerim.s8801 Рік тому

      Sure that's why the russians never had something better in the war.

    • @williet.3058
      @williet.3058 10 місяців тому

      @@kerim.s8801 So what? Von Braun and his nation didn't win it ;)

  • @krishnaraoragavendran7592
    @krishnaraoragavendran7592 2 роки тому

    7:43 😯

  • @rainydaywoman5758
    @rainydaywoman5758 Рік тому

    His life is very interesting to say the least. He was very intelligent. He's also my cousin.

  • @nancycalhoun3702
    @nancycalhoun3702 Рік тому +1

    Soviet Union did something as U.S. They (both) wanted the technology. Didn't care about past.

  • @theemeryboard4767
    @theemeryboard4767 Рік тому

    If we ever went to the moon there would be cameras filming the earth 24 hrs a day to sell footage to weather stations. It can't be done. India would've at least put some there when they allegedly went recently.

  • @sweet_stranger114
    @sweet_stranger114 Рік тому

    Make a video on Sergei korolev

  • @ClintonSmith-n3x
    @ClintonSmith-n3x Рік тому

    Frankly, we should all listen.

  • @jpeterson303
    @jpeterson303 Рік тому +3

    ✨ The God of Space Exploration ✨

  • @macewbee
    @macewbee 2 роки тому +1

    Real gracefully pointed this out pluse Russia has it own history like argentinia ( sorry for my bad spelling ) his it's own messed up history. What until you find out which USA company made money from WW2.

  • @DaBaltimoron
    @DaBaltimoron 2 роки тому +3

    One small step for A man...

  • @lotharluder2743
    @lotharluder2743 2 роки тому

    Show me a Foto with Wernher in Houston Controlcenter during moonmission.

  • @Melvorgazh
    @Melvorgazh Рік тому

    Professor Triphon Tournesol didn't have the same skeletons in his closets.

  • @darksars3622
    @darksars3622 9 місяців тому

    Skip da ad 11:59

  • @鄭振明-g4p
    @鄭振明-g4p 11 місяців тому

    錢學森等在二戰後對馮布勞恩進行搜証

  • @shortstarwarsessays1842
    @shortstarwarsessays1842 2 роки тому +5

    Americans are so easily fooled, this little propaganda piece is embarrassing. This man would take the 5 slowest Jews working in Germany and have them executed to encourage the other Jew slaves to work harder. It’s one thing to say that he was outrageously smart but he was also a monster and this video goes over as a puff piece.

    • @JACK-OMARI
      @JACK-OMARI 2 роки тому

      Thank You!

    • @thenightwatchman1598
      @thenightwatchman1598 Рік тому

      people will buy into anything so long as it fits within this postmodernist politically correct paradigm that leaves no one accountable for anything because that would just be "black and white thinking"... unless of course its "hate speech" then that can never be forgiven (the kinds of people who are more focused on a shooters misgendering then the fact the person is a mass murderer. i hope to god this WOKE nihilism will shrivel up and die under the weight of its own cancer and fade into the dustbin of history along with every other "ism". america knowingly hired psychopathic war criminals, big shock. all countries suck, this should be obvious.

    • @summacumleibniz
      @summacumleibniz 3 місяці тому

      You clearly haven't read any biography about the man.

    • @shortstarwarsessays1842
      @shortstarwarsessays1842 3 місяці тому

      @summacumleibniz i have actually is read the one by Doug West it was a shorter one, however it was absolutely a propaganda piece to make the US look better. According to you what puzzle piece am I missing.

  • @manfredzengerer2177
    @manfredzengerer2177 Рік тому

    Ich beobachtete den Mond 🌛zur Vollmondnacht mit Fuji Camera und stellte seitlich fest das der Planet kein fester Körper sondern ein Plasmaplanet ist und Mondlandung niemals stattfand und auf UA-cam dem Suchbegriff: Chnopfloch- Great Reset erfuhr ich das selbe was ich mit Camera sah.

  • @domanicwilliams920
    @domanicwilliams920 Рік тому

    Im distantly related to him through my german ancestry sadly we as the united states we have a big stained history of picking up and using war criminals for our political gain

  • @jonasguanzon5540
    @jonasguanzon5540 2 роки тому

    Justice Judgement and Equity
    Speed of lights

  • @gymrat1866
    @gymrat1866 Рік тому

    10:00 Psalms 19:1
    The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork
    We never went to space

  • @aluminiumchloride8614
    @aluminiumchloride8614 2 роки тому +1

    Ведущая очень симпатичная😍

  • @johnsnowkumar359
    @johnsnowkumar359 Рік тому

    The Unites States allowed a foreigner lead their NASA efforts of the 1960's to send a man to the moon and to bring him back safely. The US did not allow two academic scientists of small countries of Europe near Denmark visiting the White House in 1942 or so, when the duo had proposed to President Roosevelt to be lead scientists and project managers and to lead the newly re inaugurated and highly funded nuclear weapons program of 1942. They had arrived in the White House in 1942 with blueprints of the Soviet nuclear weapons program.

    • @ryszardslaw6656
      @ryszardslaw6656 6 місяців тому

      Kolego inni naukowcy którzy otrzymali nagrody Nobla byli tez obcokrajowcami ,ipochodzili z różnych panstw ,ale dzięki technice i finansom mogli swoja mysl techniczna i naukowa dzięki USA dac Swiatu Zobacz lub dowiedz się kto i kiedy wynalazł Penceline . Pozdrawiam Ryszard z Polski

  • @garyproffitt5941
    @garyproffitt5941 5 місяців тому +1

    Inventing Rockets 🚀>> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

  • @juanamargaritarodriguezdeg3873
    @juanamargaritarodriguezdeg3873 6 місяців тому

    Scientists , Engineers and all professional persons should be taught ETHICS so they will be thinking of the wellbeing of humanity, animals and vegetation.

  • @vodkacannon
    @vodkacannon 2 роки тому

    Well, there goes NASA…

  • @TheSnowballEarth
    @TheSnowballEarth 2 роки тому +4

    Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun
    A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience
    Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown
    "Nazi, Schmazi!" says Wernher von Braun.
    Don't say that he's hypocritical
    Say rather that he's apolitical
    "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
    That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun.
    Some have harsh words for this man of renown
    But some think our attitude
    Should be one of gratitude
    Like the widows and cripples in old London town
    Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.
    You too may be a big hero
    Once you've learned to count backwards to zero
    "In German, oder Englisch, I know how to count down
    Und I'm learning Chinese!" says Wernher von Braun.
    ~~~ Tom Lehrer

  • @abhishekdk5040
    @abhishekdk5040 2 роки тому +8

    Sometimes I wish if all these scientist would work for the development of their own country instead of going to US and making it strong

    • @lanzer22
      @lanzer22 2 роки тому +2

      In this case, the scientist would then had died with no accomplishments as the war torn country who lost the war would not have the resource to develop anything notable for many decades. Not to mention that countries like Germany and Japan had treaties that prohibit them from developing offensive weapons such as rockets for years.

    • @JC-xq3jl
      @JC-xq3jl 2 роки тому +1

      Those countries need a better vision and leadership. Of course, the US is headed down a bad road too nowadays but we're not dead yet.

    • @Loosesapphire5135
      @Loosesapphire5135 2 роки тому

      Try realizing they're cult scum, lying. They're not doing outer space research, they're fleecing the people for $63,000,000/day giving cartoons in return.

  • @ericclaptonsrobotpilot7276
    @ericclaptonsrobotpilot7276 7 місяців тому

    Wha Wha What? You don’t say!

  • @VONBRAUNLABS01
    @VONBRAUNLABS01 2 роки тому +1

    Very shallow analysis, unfortunately. It is very presumptuous to judge a person who lived in Germany that period, specially a gifted student with special talent to assemble a team to perform complex work enrolled in a much bigger organization under threat and at war.

  • @jamescochran3413
    @jamescochran3413 2 роки тому +1

    I did NOT see that coming!

  • @kentgarcia9627
    @kentgarcia9627 2 роки тому +1

    Bout the moon lol why dey can't go now lol 😂😂😂

    • @stebbi2019
      @stebbi2019 Рік тому +1

      Because of the weather, it's winter now in space

  • @JJs_playground
    @JJs_playground 2 роки тому +16

    Actually, it's not hard to believe the V2 rockets he made for the Nazis would transfer to the Saturn V rocket that took humanity to the moon.
    Edit: We needed a powerful ticket to espace Earth's gravity "well".

  • @alaanady2723
    @alaanady2723 2 роки тому +5

    Blaming and critizing the man who invented the V 2 rockets that killed 4000 and overlooking the American team who created the atomic bomb that erased 400 000 in Japan ( even when it was a few steps away from actual surrender ) ..
    Schizophrenia !!!

  • @darkgalaxy5548
    @darkgalaxy5548 Рік тому +2

    "He aimed for the stars, but sometimes hit London."