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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department", says Wernher Von Braun.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Making rockets wasn’t his department either.

The US wouldn’t let Von Braun go testify at Dachau. To this day there’s a lot of whitewashing. But he knew how those rockets were made.

Arthur Rudolph’s crimes were so egregious, that after letting him build the Saturn 5, we decided to ask him firmly to leave the country. In 1984.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical