Watched the livestream of the SpaceX landing today and all I saw was workers--hundreds an hundreds them, pulling off an incredibly difficult thing by working together.
Watched the news coverage and all I saw was a dipshit failson of some apartheid emerald miner--and a bunch of tech bros making the soy face in the comments.
Shit sucks.
True, but during the Apollo program there was a big focus on the fact that it was a team effort. Mostly because the government wanted people to become scientists so we could better fight the Reds (or at least, become science-literate enough to fight in a Pentomic division). Nowadays they know that getting advanced education is unachievable for most people, so they don't even try that angle.
Also, the "great men" of the Apollo program were all Nazis, maybe that forced them to spread the credit around a bit.
There was also a lot of racism so they spread that credit around a bit but they sure skipped over the women and people of color who contributed.
I didn't know that about the Apollo program
Does this mean we only succeeded technologically due to a bunch of scientists america didn't even educate? Or at least to enough of a degree that one of our biggest achievements (citation needed) can be attributed to post war immigration?
Check out Operation Paperclip. Basically, the Nazis had the first rockets and both the USSR and the US scrambled to import as much of that technology through human resources (and some blueprints too, probably) into their respective states after the war. At least that's how I learned it, not a history buff, please don't call me a Wehraboo
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Robert Goddard says screw you
Haha, I appreciate the Robert Goddard defense brigade showing up, but you're two months late on this post. You'll find no Goddard hate over here though.