Pretty much all of the first generation of JPL and later NASA was built on using Nazis to develop aerospace technology to kill the Korean and Vietnamese fight the spread of communism. This is not surprising in the slightest. Doesn't help that the astronauts themselves almost always were war criminals.
Jack Parsons is exactly who I was thinking of! I meant both literal NSDAP members and the esoteric fascists like Parsons, the ideological fathers of the JPL.
Pretty much all of the first generation of JPL and later NASA was built on using Nazis to develop aerospace technology to
kill the Korean and Vietnamesefight the spread of communism. This is not surprising in the slightest. Doesn't help that the astronauts themselves almost always were war criminals.Don't do the US dirty like that. Jack Parsons was a homegrown fascist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons
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Jack Parsons is exactly who I was thinking of! I meant both literal NSDAP members and the esoteric fascists like Parsons, the ideological fathers of the JPL.