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Old 05-14-2017, 09:45 PM  
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Originally Posted by mikesouth View Post
love or hate von braun his contributions to modern rocketry were without equal, the whole idea of a multi staged approach was his and his team.
Whaaaaaaaat?

The drawings of the first multistage rocket were made by Conrad Haas in 1556. In 1935 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky has made a statement that the multistage rocket is the only way to reach the first cosmic velocity with the existing technologies:



First multistage rocket which has sent a satellite to the Earth's orbit was constructed by Sergei Korolev. Nazi bastard Von Braun has always been 2nd.
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