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Do not underestimate
The talent of Russia's own Jewish rocket scientists. They already had a lot they were working on when the Germans came and joined them, and they ended up carrying on their work under very adverse conditions considering they were a persecuted ethnicity in the Soviet Union. A lot of those people ended up in Israel and at NASA during the fall of the Soviet Union. That they were able to do what they could do under those conditions is mind boggling.

The Apollo technology is fantastic, which is why we are largely returning to it. That the Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne J2 is going to be used heavily in Ares (along with the Shuttle RS-68 that evolved from Apollo which although married to a complex system in the Shuttle is an excellent engine in and of itself) is a testament to how well engineered that system was.
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Westinghouse in name only.  singerap | 07/10/09
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Misunderstanding history  frgough | 07/06/09
Wasn't it Jefferson who said:  rshores | 07/06/09
Five years I would have disagreed with you  frgough | 07/06/09
How hard line did Kennedy have to be to ...  Cayble | 07/10/09
Franklin  JJ Brannon | 07/07/09
Misunderstanding history  gertruded | 07/06/09
Your time markers place you  chrome_slinky@... | 07/07/09
Your view is far to simplistic.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/07/09
The nice thing about history  frgough | 07/07/09
Re: Misunderstanding History  acampbell@... | 07/07/09
Not quite. Talent plays a part too.  osreinstall | 07/07/09
German Scientists  jperlow ZDNet Moderator | 07/07/09
They didn't return home until years later.  osreinstall | 07/07/09
Do not underestimate  jperlow ZDNet Moderator | 07/07/09
I didn't that much.  osreinstall | 07/07/09
Many cosmonauts died ... we'll never know about  niallfromdublin@... | 07/07/09
It is NOT conjecture.  jperlow ZDNet Moderator | 07/07/09
You mean our German scientists  frgough | 07/07/09
OK frgouge, We had the better toymakers.  osreinstall | 07/07/09
Ehm...  kitko | 07/11/09
Ayn Rand  Jeff Richardson | 07/07/09
A spoiled brat that wanted things.  osreinstall | 07/07/09
HIstory Misunderstood  topaz_z | 07/10/09
You're punch drunk.  Cayble | 07/10/09
Robert H. Goddard  WiredGuy | 07/07/09
RE: To the Moon: How we built the technologies  cb77305 | 07/07/09
Pride & Accomplishment vice Profit !!!!  GIGOmat | 07/07/09
Right  frgough | 07/07/09
The talent was less diffused  Takalok | 07/07/09
Things have changed  JimPeoples | 07/07/09
Sad to say that so little has been done  chrome_slinky@... | 07/07/09
Overstated.....  GIGOmat | 07/07/09
RE: To the Moon: How we built the technologies  tim_bowler@... | 07/07/09
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Well  jdbukis@... | 07/08/09
outer space travel an invention?  bkn2000 | 07/10/09
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RE: To the Moon: How we built the technologies  oh_never_mind | 07/08/09
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Yes, Grumman.  oh_never_mind | 07/13/09
RE: To the Moon: How we built the technologies  herrbob | 07/10/09
RE: To the Moon: How we built the technologies  bkn2000 | 07/10/09
one more comment  bkn2000 | 07/10/09
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re did not understand  bkn2000 | 07/11/09
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40 years later  jperlow ZDNet Moderator | 07/10/09
It didn't happen at all.  Bozzer | 07/11/09
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You fail to grasp reality...  DonRupertBitByte | 07/12/09
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Ask Buzz  oh_never_mind | 07/13/09
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Ummmmm.....  Cayble | 07/10/09
What about now?  kitko | 07/11/09
We may have no choice  jperlow ZDNet Moderator | 07/11/09
RE: To the Moon: How we built the technologies  gertruded | 07/11/09
Rocketdyne  oh_never_mind | 07/13/09
Chrysler, believe it or not!  oh_never_mind | 07/13/09
And even IBM  oh_never_mind | 07/13/09
RE: To the Moon: How we built the technologies  ccouillard@... | 07/28/09

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