Tim Dodd
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So it's 14 years.
We hadn't even put anything in orbit yet at this time.
Really?
When he's describing this.
Yeah.
And he, this guy was the face of NASA.
Yeah, he was.
Yeah.
Which is nuts.
I mean, we're fortunate that Operation Paperclip allowed us to get some of the best engineers in the world at the time, which was which were Nazis.
The Nazis had mastered rockets.
Rockets are a really hard thing to master, and they developed liquid engines that no one else had developed yet.
And so for us, like to be able to get that data back from them, you know, and bring them over here, we literally the first thing that took
Anything into space for the U.S.
was literally based on the V2 missile that the Nazis built.
We call it the Redstone rocket and put some red, white, and blue America on it.
But for all intents and purposes, it's a V2.
And then a couple years later, he's in the U.S.
running NASA.
It's just crazy, dude.