"Mars and Beyond" is a 1957 Disney show about life on other planets

Bullshit. There’s no doubt that the US and USSR were able to rapidly advance their technologies and take advantage of earlier Nazi rocket research with the help of the Nazi scientists, but it’s not like the Nazis were the only ones with any ideas about rocketry. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena CA has its roots in Cal Tech rocket experiments that started in the early 1930s done by scientists like Theodore von Kármán who hated Nazis:

We would have got there eventually.

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