The Secret Mine That Took Us To Space

The Space Race, the Cold War, and the Moon Landing all have an origin story connected to a small, obscure silver iron mining operation in the mountains of Lower Saxony in Germany - and it’s such a complex, unbelievable tale that it exposes our most dangerous intersections of science and morality.
14 tons of buried paper determined the fate of the world and kicked off humanity’s exploration of space.
We already know the end of the story: we know about Sputnik and Apollo 11, we know about Werner von Braun, and we know about Operation Paperclip. But pulling the threads of NASA and the Soviet Union’s Vostok program unravels an unknown World War II race between trucks and time, a struggle of secrets and survival, and a twist-filled tale of man, mind, and morality.
What you need to know is that story’s beginning - and if you don’t know it already, that’s because they never told you.
#spacerace #coldwar #science #history

[@Conrad500]

Ok, now tell me where they hid non paper treasure

[@tiredandokay]

Love the content and so glad I found the channel. Interesting and different discussions. Great work.

[@Xxvier123]

You've earned a sub!

[@BeenDownSoLong...]

In my opinion, you should have said the cache also contained documents pointing out that the end justifies the means. Or at least they were making the case for a Machiavellian justification for their behavior. Oh, and that was a nice "Fine-tuning" argument at the end there. To what purpose?

[@ddturnerphd]

Awesome!

[@Pieceoreece]

Ok i'll bite...

[@caramelsensation6943]

This story has been done to death on youtube, representing a name like Popular Science, you should really be doing some original videos.

[@JohnJones-oy3md]

I was assured that it was a bunch of sassy black ladies crunching numbers that got us to the moon.

[@Conrad500]

It is! As well as many other moving parts just as vital to the process. There's a reason the saying is "it's not rocket science," because when it is, it really is.

[@MB-st7be]

Yeesh who wrote this script? Way too incoherent