"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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  • BillNyeTheCommieGuy [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    On where the name came from:

    “Army Intelligence officers reviewing the OMGUS security reports of certain scientists could discreetly attach a paperclip to the files of the more troublesome cases. Those files would not be presented to the State Department right away. Instead, those men would remain under military custody in America, most likely for a longer period of time than some of their fellows. As a result, the Nazi scientist program got a new code name.”

    Excerpt From: Annie Jacobsen. “Operation Paperclip.”