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History of Space Travel - Kill Devil to V-2 - Extra History
🕑 Added 2019-11-13 18:23:34 +0000 UTCEarly flight started as a utopian dream but quickly became the military's top priority: first as reconnaissance vehicles, and then as weapons in their own right. After WW1, the threat of German aircraft led to the Treaty of Versailles banning Germany from having an airforce at all. But the Germans also found a loophole: rockets didn't count as an airforce. Enter Wehrner Von Braun & the V-2 rockets.
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Martin Verran
Hurrah ~ another Interwar period episode!
General Luigi
Does Matt pronounce his name properly?
Robert Rath
Next week. ;-)
Darren Loo
Wait, you guys went straight to Sputnik and the Space Race without even one mention of Sergey Korolev? (Also shoutout to Alberto Santos-Dumont)