"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun
Wernher Von Braun was one of NASA's founders and its first director. He was also previously an SS officer, nazi rocket scientist, and had approved the use of concentration camp victims as slave labor.
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The soviets raided the homes of nazis scientists in the middle of the night, made them work in gulags, and frequently trialed/executed them for war crimes as they were found to no longer be useful.
The americans let the nazi scientists run NASA, gave them honorary degrees, and had them star in propaganda films.
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