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Old 06-23-2008
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Re: What is the point?

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Originally Posted by goober View Post
Someone asked a NASA administrator why we beat the Russians to the moon.
And he said "Because our Germans are better than their Germans".
Although the thing that made it all possible was the liquid fueled rocket, invented in Worcester, Massachusetts by Robert Goddard, WPI, class of '08.
And what made it technically advanced where it could be used as NASA used it was Wernher Von Braun. Gotta give credit where credit is due.
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