How Wernher von Braun went from WWII Germany to NASA Legend

As always, companion blog with all the sources from this video is over at Medium:   / wernher-von-brauns-hugely-complicated-legacy  
*I'm traveling today so I had to schedule everything this morning, and this link might be an expired draft link by the time this is live. If that's the case, I'll update it as soon as I have a chance to fix it! At the very least the article should be up at my Medium profile.

00:00 - Intro
01:51 - Rocketry in the Pre-War Years
04:20 - Army Sponsorship
13:51 - WWII
26:17 - Escape to American
31:59 - Americanization
37:14 - The Space Age
43:07 - NASA
54:54 - The Final Years

Kurtis Connor has an excellent video about AI YouTube content, well worth a watch:    • The "Faceless YouTube Channel" Plague  

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Fighting for Space: https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Space...

Breaking the Chains of Gravity: https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Chain...

I have an space books list in my Amazon storefront, updated regularly, that includes a lot of related titles: https://amzn.to/4g0Vsnw

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Music: Brittle Rille by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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