How advanced would the US space program be if it hadn't poached the Nazi Rocket scientists after World War II?

Question

Doesn't it just get on your nerves when people with less than 100 points tell you that you don't know what you are talking about LOL

Answer 1

non exsistant.
The missile technology was nearly single handedly developed by Werner Von Braun and his team of associates. They single handedly developed the jet propelled engine. The first jet prototypes the Americans built were actually built from captured V2 rockets. This led to development of the jet plane later guided missiles and space rockets!!!

Answer 2

The US space program would surely take place, but getting Von Braun and some people from his Penemunde crew gave Americans huge boost. Both Us Atlas and Soviet R7 rockets were based on V2. After the war Soviets kept many German scientis to work on their rocket program but Von Braun was a genius. He designed rocket to put first American satellite on orbit, but Eisenhower decided to choose domestic rocket and that was reason of failure onVanguard satellite. I think that US program would have been 5 or even 6 years behind.

Answer 3

That is an impossible question to answer, as it is possible that American engineers could have designed something similar over the course of time. No question that the original rocket technology from the Germans in WWII added tremendously to the advancement of human space flight, but no one can honestly say that NASA could or would not have been able to design working spaceships without the Germans first discovering rocket power.

Answer 4

Robert Goddard was using liquid fueled rockets in 1926. I'm sure that the German scientists helped, but they were not absolutely necessary to get the job done eventually.

I included a song about one of the Nazi Rocket scientists (Werhner Von Braun). Thought you might like it.

Answer 5

Wernher von Braun was a Nazi, yes... however, his readiness to accept and mold himself into an American including constant speaking lessons to rid himself of the German accent shows that it was not his country he fought for... it was for space.

von Braun was a Nazi because of where he lived and by default... had he lived in the US initially there would be no questioning like this...

He definitely gave us Apollo... however, the Russians took Germans themselves... so don't kid yourself and think the Russians did not use German rocketry to build up their knowledge of spaceflight... though they were more interested in ICBM's than spaceflight...

von Braun made the V-2 because it was the only way he could get closer to getting to space... the US gave him that opportunity, he seized it, and now he is in history as one of the great scientists of our time.

Answer 6

i remember 1 american budget from a few years ago and the Nasa complained because they were only budgeted 30 bn dollars for that year i think that was the case. anyway going by that budget and working the equivilent out they would have gotten people into space regardless of von braun, maybe a few years late but they could have done it.

Answer 7

About as advanced as the soviet space program would have been if they had not done the same. Their space program started with second hand V2 rockets as well!

Answer 8

There is no doubt that without Werner von Braun and his team there would have been no Apollo program. It's one of the great moral and scientific dilemmas of our time.

Answer 9

About the same as Hezbolla. All those failures on the lauch pad were Vanguards, not von Braun's Redstone.

Answer 10

stone-age technology