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A True Space Race Background
The V-2 was the progenitor of all modern rockets, including those used by US space programs.
For centuries, traveling to Space was an impossible idea, until two rival scientists engaged in a race to realize that dream. His fight would make history. One of them, a German member of the SS and the National Socialist Party who moved to the American side, was a man ahead of his time. On the other, a Soviet locked in a gulag (Soviet forced labor camps), accused of crimes he had not committed, which would become the revolutionary mind of the Soviet technological apparatus. These two people would change history forever.
On July 20, 1969, the human race managed to step onto another planet for the first time, but before that day came, many things had to happen, situations that are barely known, so let’s go back to the beginning, how that first step arose here on Earth, to become the biggest jump in Space.
Germany is about to lose World War II, and as a desperate measure launches a secret experimental rocket, the V-2 (“V” comes from Vergeltungswaffe, translated would be “retaliatory weapon” or “Revenge”). It was the world’s…
