Moon Landing | German Rocket Engineers | NASA | Apollo 11 | This Week | 1969

[@jooky87]

Man, I miss those rational times where an interviewer can dispassionately ask, “You worked for such diverse bosses such as Adolf Hitler and JFK, does it matter for who you work for?” And receive a decent answer. And for everyone to not have a meltdown.

[@Astro_Guy_1]

Are you sad that being okay with Hitler is not accepted anymore?

[@marcatkinson5187]

Good god , I could not have said it better. To ask a tough question and allow the man to answer without smearing him , for good or bad. Yes, everything is an editorial and woke spectacle now. Sucks.

[@itadrummer1]

Werner Von Braun was an un- repented Nazi who seized the opportunity once he got arrested. That’s all . Most scientists would have done the same once given the choice between freedom with the option of a highly successful and rewarding future life for himself and his family or imprisonment ( specially if the latter one meant serving time in a Soviet gulag !). It’s a no brainer 🤣🤣🤣

[@mattkelly7413]

@@itadrummer1 he almost looks normal almost like he didn’t help murder millions. So you can’t fly to the top of Mount Everest with a helicopter that guy’s an idiot and a liar. Probably would’ve been best to round up all those scientists people from Germany and hung them. Now in 2022 we look around and we see white supremacists with Nazi flags trying to bring back horrors of history. I wonder if we would have this problem today if we would’ve taken care of all the Nazis in 1945

[@Shyzenth]

@@mattkelly7413 the world is doomed when short-sighted people like yourself comment.

[@lard_lad_AU]

USA v USSR “Our Germans are better than their Germans”

[@rockandrollman3827]

yes usa and ussr soveit union capture German technology,shame on you 😞

[@mhballa5866]

@@rockandrollman3827 lol they lost a war , get over your self .

[@ABtheButterfly]

@@rockandrollman3827 dude Wernher von Braun practically begged for the US to take him and his men cause they didn't want to be capture by the Russians

[@SolnyshkoProduction]

@@ABtheButterfly Так и есть. Он даже руку поломал в аварии, сильно торопился сдаться армии США)

[@zapfanzapfan]

We were afraid of the Russians, despised the French and the English could not afford us :-)

[@coasti6718]

as a german i think we can also be proud to help america to step on the moon ! today the world is laughing at us because we are always looking stupid when we try to be the voice of moral .. but back then look what we did we litteraly designed the most powerful rocket for the us

[@CA999]

It's sad to see Germany commit economic suicide (again) by being hostile to their patient, low cost energy and resources supplier, plus good customer of their finely engineered goods. I guess we elsewhere in the west will have to see more made in China, designed in Germany white goods, cars and tools.

[@allgood6760]

He had a brilliant mind🚀 and he visited down under.. thanks from NZ🇳🇿

[@Leewise1]

Wernher von Braun - Shook Hitler's hand, was apologised to by Hitler, invented a spaceship, shook Eisenhower's hand, put people on the moon, shook JFK's hand. That's just some of the things we KNOW he did, what a life

[@wes209]

"Put a man on the moon" Translates to: Watched as his buddy Walt hired Stanley Cubric to build a bitching movie set

[@LOGOS_Official]

@@wes209 true. Even Von Braun said we would never land on the moon it would take too much fuel to even leave orbit

[@ms.bunniesarecute2287]

@@wes209 God you're an idiot... we definitely, landed on the moon. People like you are a burden to the human race with you ignorance and conspiracies

[@shitnick4202]

@@wes209 u are a poor soul

[@danielzhang5395]

@@LOGOS_Official Nah where did he say that

[@fasthracing]

At least it gave them something to do after flying V1 and V2 over to us here in the UK.

[@silenthunteruk]

More people were killed making those missiles (slave labour to dig the underground facilities) than by them.

[@fasthracing]

That's VERY true. Think the V2 "only" killed about 1500 people. @@silenthunteruk

[@tavish4699]

well mayby you shouldnt have started bombing us in 1939 fuck around and find out

[@jubu3136]

What a mix of American German accent

[@VinnyBarbarino29]

That’s called “South-erman” accent.

[@yuannaceo4158]

He’s speaking English with a German accent ? Is this wat u mean lol

[@yuannaceo4158]

Ju Bu lol I see wat u mean

[@melonslice1991]

@teddy What? If you are going to speak German ateast do it correctly. If we want to play the ''but he was forced to'' game he can too. He was forced to join the Nazi's, he was forced to use slave labour, he was forced to build the V2 he just had to do what he was told. In a way he was a victim (being forced to build rockets to kill civilians) a villain (for benefiting from all that slave labour) and a hero (for the great rockets he made after) his dream was always to build rockets and not missles. Ofcourse that doesn't excuse what he did, but it explains it. The thing is, if it wasn't him designing the V2 they would have found someone else, the exact same thing would happen. There's just no point in trying to be a hero if nobody will hear you, let alone benefit from it. I just don't believe that we should expect someone to risk their lives to be ''moraly right'' without anyone actually benefiting from it.

[@leethebot1870]

Accent being like: You can take the boys out of Germany but you cannot take Germany out of the boys xd

[@JacobafJelling]

Nice one 🙂

[@itadrummer1]

I am sure they ALL had the Third Reich insignia, included the Nazi flag, saved and displayed in their homes. And that would have been just right since these scientists were first and foremost citizens of their homeland, Germany, and grew up during the Nazi years. PRetty much like the Confederates here in the U.S.

[@DW51380]

@@itadrummer1 there’s a famous picture of Nazi scientist working in full uniform that people think is during the war which is actually from 1947 where they apparently where allowed to wear their uniforms one last time

[@itadrummer1]

@@DW51380 America has always been much closer to the Nazi regime than we can imagine ….. Ford was supplying military trucks to the Wehrmacht and SS since the mid Thirties and GM took full control of Opel in 1931 . Plus IBM is the American corporation that supplied the Nazis with that brand new and groundbreaking computerized system of collecting data for the concentration camps . Hypocrisy at its best , to say the least ….. The REAL ENEMY OF THE WORLD is the American government. Plain and simple .

[@tavish4699]

@@itadrummer1 wtf are you talking about? they were scientists not party leaders or part of the ss

[@StephanRiess]

Interesting guys, lots of respect, building a space program with close to none computing support. Who would be able to do something like that now?

[@space.invaders]

The guy and his fellow rocket scientists were German Nazi's and were/are directly responsible for the killing of millions of people. Respect?

[@e34boat88]

i belive we could be way more better at anything if more mechanical systems were used. it just takes bit more time and effort but end results are way more solid

[@janeparra3300]

Anyone bcuz it’s all a lie!!! Do your research.

[@ClausB252]

They were on the forefront of computer applications. They developed "Automated Checkout Equipment" for their rockets based on minicomputers. They worked with MIT and IBM to develop small on-board computers. NASA installed large mainframes for mission planning and real-time support. They jump started the microcomputer revolution.

[@markduchey8785]

Interesting guy von Braun. Led quite the life

[@juggamina1426]

I love this guy

[@realitycheck6524]

He truly was a great man.

[@willtruth4487]

Why don't they make a film about him instead of bullshit mediaops like "Hidden figures" as if anything is truly hidden.

[@arthurfleck1554]

BLM and they were KANGZ!

[@jamesavery3559]

I Aim at the Stars

[@teevee2145]

politics

[@teflonpan115]

Gröttrup worked briefly on the early Soviet rocket program, not the space program. Then he was sent home in the early 1950s. He had nothing to do with R-7 sputnik rocket.

[@347Jimmy]

Yeah, the R-7 design started in '53 when Korolev took over I think the US likes to try and credit German scientists with both sides of the space race, rather than admit that the Soviets had their own geniuses

[@ClausB252]

Well the R-7 heavily employed V2 technology, such as separate fuel for engine turbopumps. It still flies today. US rockets abandoned that technology in the 50s.

[@speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783]

Got a link to the full uncut unedited interviews? Thanks!

[@realitynotfictionii563]

That American accent sure does go away after a generation or two - I am fine! Perfect "Americanz"

[@Aleinikov65]

If U want 2 play Wernher von Braun ----> play Kerbal Space Program 2 !!!!

[@erik_griswold]

Don't say that he's hypocritical Say rather that he's apolitical "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department" says Wernher von Braun -Tom Lehrer

[@jshaw4757]

Dumb

[@Super-no1fx]

So when he was asked if he ever thought he would get to the moon..he looked down and to the left.. and then paused..

[@talesfromtheknicks7811]

Glad I wasn’t the only person who saw that 😂🍻

[@danielwells7083]

How long until they damn his memory?

[@donaldthegreat5809]

4:35 ahhhhh well He's not really german

[@JeffGR4]

I have great admiration for Dr. Wernher von Braun, he was brilliant and dashing. Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger @ 00:34 was another great guy.

[@kingrichardiii6280]

"it's demanding, and needs perfection, and unforgiving too. there is no such thing of a 99.9% success. that 0.1% can lead to a complete failure" if only NASA held to that standard during challenger.

[@itadrummer1]

Given the fact that the WHOLE space program was entirely developed and managed by German scientists who started and developed their careers in the Third Reich , it would have been more proper and true to stick a NAZI flag ( or at the very least the current German one ) on the Moon !

[@prince-solomon]

The Germans were also running the CIA, after the OSS & Gehlen Organization merger and don't forget the later boss of the CIA was a Nazi supporter long before ww2. The Third Reich lives on as the Military Industrial Complex in the US. At the same time they worked with their German counterparts in the Soviet Union, being ahead of both the US & SU. People forget that the old Prussians (THule Society) had powerful friends and supporters all around the world long before ww2.

[@princessozmaofoz5242]

Nazi flag on the moon? What the hell??

[@itadrummer1]

@@princessozmaofoz5242 well , technically it’s exactly what it should have been taken and displayed there . The only thing the US did was to finance a team of former UNREPENTANT Nazi scientists , the very same ones who developed the V-1 and V-2. I know history is by now a totally unknown concept but before displaying how ignorant you people are do a bit of research ….

[@MrJm323]

You're just upset that it wasn't YOUR flag -- a Commie banner like the Soviet flag.

[@ftroop8462]

To the victor go the spoils

[@jscotty349]

Helmut Gröttrup: "OK I said everything in the paper, you can lower the AKs now dear comrade KGB"

[@ranat5526]

This is the Crazy Russian Hacker faking his accent, the lengths that the C I a goes to is incredible. Imagine if they just spent 2% of their wealth on true human development!

[@JacobafJelling]

1:23 did he just make a mathematical error?

[@donaldthegreat5809]

na he did say point 1 percent

[@JacobafJelling]

@@donaldthegreat5809 he said ".1%" but either is wrong. Perhaps he is nervous

[@donaldthegreat5809]

@@JacobafJelling 99.9 to .1 what's the wrong here

[@JacobafJelling]

@@donaldthegreat5809 .1 is 0.10. with 99.9, only .01 is remaining

[@OllihuAkbar]

@@JacobafJelling Yeah no, 99.9 + 0.01 is just 99.91

[@clintonearlwalker]

This story "might' have turned out differently. Here's a few tidbits: Former Buchenwald inmate Adam Cabala claims that von Braun went to the concentration camp to pick slave laborers: ... also the German scientists led by Prof. Wernher von Braun were aware of everything daily. As they went along the corridors, they saw the exhaustion of the inmates, their arduous work and their pain. Not one single time did Prof. Wernher von Braun protest against this cruelty during his frequent stays at Dora. Even the aspect of corpses did not touch him: On a small area near the ambulance shed, inmates tortured to death by slave labor and the terror of the overseers were piling up daily. But, Prof. Wernher von Braun passed them so close that he was almost touching the corpses. Ever heard of the V-2 launch site "La Coupole"? It never fired a rocket, but it "might" have. More people killed by forced labor building the V-2's than were killed by it's weapon. Here's a list of bombing attacks on La Coupole: 11 March 1944 Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png 34 of 51 Consolidated B-24 Liberators of the 2d Bombardment Division's 44th and 93d Heavy Bombardment groups attacked Wizernes using blind-bombing techniques due to thick overcast, dropping 127 tons of bombs.[40] 19 March 1944 Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png 152 Martin B-26 Marauders of IX Bomber Command attacked V-weapon sites around Saint-Omer.[40] 26 March 1944 Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png 500 heavy bombers of the 8th Air Force attacked a total of 16 V-weapon sites in northern France, including Wizernes, dropping 1,271 tons of bombs. Allied losses were four Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and one B-24; a further 236 bombers were damaged by enemy fire.[40] 17 April 1944 Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png 14 B-24 Liberators and five pathfinder aircraft used an experimental bombing technique to attack Wizernes.[40] 25 April 1944 Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png 27 B-24 Liberators from 2d Bombardment Division bombed Wizernes in a special test of new pathfinding equipment.[40] 3 May 1944 Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png 47 B-24 Liberators escorted by 101 fighters from VIII Fighter Command attacked Wizernes using blind-bombing techniques.[40] 20 June 1944 RAF roundel.svg 17 Avro Lancasters and 3 De Havilland Mosquito of No 617 Squadron attempted to attack Wizernes but were forced to abort by cloud cover over the target.[41] 22 June 1944 RAF roundel.svg A second 617 Squadron attack on Wizernes was again thwarted by cloud cover.[41] 24 June 1944 RAF roundel.svg 617 Squadron returned to Wizernes with 16 Lancasters and 2 Mosquitos, losing one Lancaster to anti-aircraft fire.[41] Several Tallboy bombs were dropped but failed to cause much damage.[42] 28 June 1944 RAF roundel.svg 103 Handley Page Halifaxes and 5 Mosquitos from No. 4 Group and 2 Lancasters of the Pathfinder Force attacked Wizernes without loss.[41] 17 July 1944 RAF roundel.svg 72 Halifaxes, 28 Stirlings, 20 Lancasters, 11 Mosquitos and 1 North American Mustang attacked three V-weapons sites including Wizernes, which was attacked with a dozen Tallboys.[43] The attack caused severe damage to the site and buried the entrances to the launch tunnels Gustav and Gretchen. The site was abandoned a few weeks later.[44] 20 July 1944 RAF roundel.svg 174 Lancasters, 165 Halifaxes and 30 Mosquitos attacked V-1 launching sites and the Wizernes site.[43] 20/21 July 1944 RAF roundel.svg 54 Halifaxes, 23 Lancasters and 10 Mosquitos attacked V-weapon sites at Ardouval and Wizernes, but no bombs were dropped at Wizernes due to bad weather.[43] 4 August 1944 Eighth Air Force - Emblem (World War II).png An experimental Operation Aphrodite attack using remotely controlled B-17 Flying Fortress drones packed with explosives failed when they overshot Wizernes by 2,000 feet.[45]

[@sunk5244]

It's almost like Von Braun would have been shot and killed if he would have showed any resentment towards the Nazi party... nah couldn't be that.

[@prodigiii712]

Why are you working so hard to go after a dead genius who built rockets to take us to moon and helped us built deterrence to Soviet Union. You’ll always be a piece of shit and he will always be a genius even if criticizing him makes you feel good. You’re not a better person, you’re just useless.

[@clintonearlwalker]

@@prodigiii712 Who is "us'? The world is full of people like you that run your mouth about things you don't know anything about. I know every bit as much about the former Soviet Union as you do and what my part was in it's "collapse". It didn't involve putting thousands of Jews in concentration camps and working them to death. Don't run you mouth about things you don't know anything about, or waste my time.

[@bucklbr4]

So what? I don't get your point. Von Braun was a scientist and engineer who achieved his scientific aims regardless of the monkey's around him.

[@clintonearlwalker]

@@bucklbr4 My guess is none of your family died from exhaustion building his scientific aims or none were killed by V-2 rockets landing on them.

[@nkristianschmidt]

3:50 again today, we do not know what a billion dollars is

[@alexeysergeev2151]

"You can come to Mount Everest by helicopter, but no one does it". I was not possible to get to the top of Everest by helicopter in 1969 because standard helicopters could not fly that high. The first person who reached the top of Everest by helicopter was Didier Delsalle in 2005.

[@speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783]

That we know about. They may know more, even nazi tech.

[@edgarviernes2532]

Wernher von Braun mentioned possibility of living on another planet that can support life. I agree with him. It may not happen today. But it will in the 21st century

[@ProductofCrew]

4:34 You can get to the top of Mount Everest with a Helicopter? I don't even think today's helicopters can fly at those heights for sustained periods of time. It would be a one way trip.

[@zerocool1344]

The gentleman is just pissed he didn't go to the US and help reach the moon with his fellow Germans.

[@JoseRodriguez-di8bv]

Cooper presents a good point. I think we got to the moon but the footage and pictures are all fooey, something is being hidden.

[@Ramanji7700]

Nice

[@MrJm323]

4:30 ...."compare it to going to Mount Everest; you could go to Mount Everest by helicopter, but no one does it, they all wish to climb it." And he was the lead German rocket engineer working for the Soviets until the early '50s? ....No wonder they didn't get to the Moon! No, you CAN'T ascend Mount Everest (peak at 29,000 feet) with a helicopter, and certainly not in 1969 (when this interview took place). It has been done (much later than when this guy was being interviewed), but just barely. How can this guy be an aerospace engineer and say what he did?

[@Annishark]

Still disgusting how america worship von braun like a hero ...

[@ftroop8462]

They don't worship him at all.

[@Annishark]

@@ftroop8462 some do

[@realworlddudedude6836]

Every system has its own cruelty also the US. Look at vietnam, Irak, Afghanistan. Although civilians were not deliberately murdered like at the Nazis concentrations, millions were also killed as a result of these wars

[@Annishark]

@@realworlddudedude6836 Ofc, but von braun wasn't just a german in nazi time, he was an active part of the holocaust. He had his working camp where he himself ordered more "workers" and selected them...

[@halexp]

life is a circle spiral

[@oksanadaurova]

За деньги продали души дьяволу и такое зло принесли на землю

[@EmotionallyBankrupt]

Wernher looks similar to the British former Conservative MP (born 1952) Sir Bob Neill, of Bromley and Chislehurst, similar manner of speaking too. Did Wernher visit the UK much? Was he welcome at the German embassy? Did they dress up in 'fancy dress', if Werner ever turned up? But always remember the Russian counterpart Sergei Korolev. The Russians and NKVD put him in prison in 1939, with dreadful effects on his health. Wernher never had anything like that.

[@uppal123g]

So the nazies took us to the moon;

[@Rami-vr9dy]

Some say that the WW2 was just a break from the war against the real enemy: the commies.

[@BatMan-fj8dy]

I mean Germans in general took humanity to Space. Von Braun’s V2 was the first object in space. German scientists and technology went to the Soviets and US which started their programs.

[@ronshekelson]

Nobody went to the moon this is propaganda

[@louisw4390]

It was either the space launch or beating up blacks in Birmingham.

[@finnoleg2712]

Not really, even dough German scientists developed the first mankind objects to reach the border, that we consider to be the border to space nowadays, reaching the moon was a goal reached by humanity not by a special Country, sure Americans were the first to land on the moon, but they wouldn't have reached it without as well german scientists as without, for example Newton. Sorry for my bad English, I'm German...

[@dreamlover7681]

How dare you criticize them? Lol remember scientist have mo remorse and mercy

[@-DC-]

German or ex Nazi's?? 🤔🤔🤔

[@MrJm323]

"German or ex Nazi's??" German or ex-Nazi's ....what? (You're using an apostrophe 's'. An apostrophe 's' is used to indicate possession. If you punctuate properly, you can actually communicate a meaningful thought.)

[@ronshekelson]

@@MrJm323 you're a grammar Nazi

[@shubhankardasgupta4777]

Whether he was a Nazi or not, you are not capable of his foot.

[@talesfromtheknicks7811]

@@shubhankardasgupta4777stop sucking his foot you Nazi apologist

[@Rami-vr9dy]

I think we landed on the moon but it can't be done again because all the Genius German engineers who worked on these project are all long dead. They never documented their knowledge. So all the knowledge is lost. We simply don't know how to land on the moon again. Sad truth is that the USA never produced Genius level of anything. They always imported them. It's the school system. It's really bad. German engineering on the other hand is still a label for quality. Even today, long after the great wars of the last century.

[@plasticflashlight3039]

Well maybe. But the technology is certainly still there, if one looks to Cape Canaveral & The Kennedy Space Center it’s all still physically there. And we’ve made it to Mars. I think it’s probably the funding. It’s not that we can’t get there, it’s that no one cares enough. Humans are too introverted. Who am I to say though.

[@JTHBS]

there where 400 000 people working on the Apollo missions and the moon landing project. It was a huge effort and financial risk for the whole nation. Thats why they havent done it again, because they reached their goal... proving their superiority in the cold war. After that its true what Helmut Gröttrup said...you can get the same data from autonomous space probes for a fraction of the cost. However with the new tech it will become affordable to do it again and we see now a new motivation to go to moon and mars. I am sure in the next 20 years it will be done again.

[@valeriegriner5644]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but we did NOT land on the moon. Dig in and research this! How did President Nixon call Neil Armstrong on the MOON with a LANDLINE PHONE from the oval office? Must have great phone reception up there. I agree with you that Germans were always the leaders in engineering and technology, but if we supposedly went to the moon around a dozen times...we did NOT "lose" the technology. What they LOST...was the ability to keep pulling this gigantic HOAX on the public.

[@plasticflashlight3039]

@@valeriegriner5644 You're right we didn't lose that technology. Its turned into the postwar secret space the DoD has created. The only reason we publicized the moon landing was because we were at war with Russia and were in a space race. Theres a reason why space exploration went private, NASA doesnt have the funding to do it anymore and its not in their interest to go back. All eyes are set on Mars missions. Understanding the context in why we went to the moon in the first place is essential to understanding why theres no reason to go back on a publicly funded mission.

[@JTHBS]

@@valeriegriner5644 you know that the Russians, the Europeans and other countries had the technology to follow and confirm the moon landing... So why should they all stay silent when it never happened? Especially the cold war enemies! Today even much more countries like China, India etc can see the remains of the missions on the surface of the moon. You can see the traces and landing sites. Also Moonstones were send to all kind of countries for research. Sorry, your conspiracy theory is wrong.

[@outremer91]

American Heroes

[@funki4902]

His voice and his facial expressions have some resemblance to that of Trump's.

[@colderbeer]

I think President Trump's family history dates back to Germany....

[@MichaelMonaghan-j5q]

😂. NASA N"A*Z*I looks similar

[@MattLong90]

Trump looks like him, so does Elon. Elon has the exact viewpoint on Mars as well. Curious.....

[@svetimarko2]

You cannot gobble up fascism without spewing back a little.

[@RenzoM2811]

@SlypherSpoons So Benito Mussolini was a communist?

[@elitesenslaveus415]

Yeah we didn’t go to the moon the Nazi lied to us again. I bet they spent your money well though lol

[@brent6518]

War criminal!

[@ME262MKI]

Cry me a river

[@brent6518]

@@ME262MKI collective guilt?

[@AaronTheGreat________]

😂😂😂 if people could get on with life with him in the 60’s why do u matter now nonce

[@bucklbr4]

Sssh. If you let everyone know you are a war criminal you might get arrested! Don't put it on social media dude!

[@MoellerEngineeringCo.]

@brent6518 Actually, he was a member of the Nazi Party.

[@wolfgang4078]

SS Man and war criminal v. Braun was a "honored" US citizen. What a double moral !

[@Michael_Scott_Howard]

More Americans Engineers put man on the moon than the Fmr German Engineers.

[@Michael_Scott_Howard]

@Roger Clemons LOL, The USSR tracked every landed by Earth based Radar.. to prove a failure... They did not..

[@jdmlegent]

@Roger Clemons To all of you that believe and promote moon hoaxes , you deserve a Saturn V rocket launch up into your ass, and then send you on Mars where you can protest "space travel is fake" !

[@HoodsCZ]

But he was an American since 1955.

[@garyproffitt5941]

Inventing the rocket >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

[@osenrima]

Instead to think in yo reach life in other planets,... WHY NOT SPENT THAT MONEY IN FIXING THE DAMAGE IN OURS!?

[@escovision1986]

Wernher von Braun created NASA and the "Wernher Bros" network (Warner Bros "WB"

[@princessozmaofoz5242]

Lol

[@diarmuidsheehan4927]

He founded Warner Bros when he was 11 years old? Impressive