NASA: FROM NAZI V2'S TO ARTEMIS II
Bonus Episode | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the full story of how humanity got back to the Moon — from the V-2 rocket built with slave labor in Nazi Germany, through Operation Paperclip, the Cold War space race, six Apollo landings, a 54-year gap, and finally the April 2026 Artemis II mission that sent four astronauts around the Moon for the first time since 1972. This episode covers Wernher von Braun and the moral compromise at the heart of the American rocket program, Sputnik and the panic that created NASA, Kennedy's impossible promise, the Apollo 1 fire, the…
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