The view from 50,000 feet:

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3. I get your point about NASA, but honestly in my many decades since the space landings, I have NEVER

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heard former NAZIS linked to that program. To the development of our own Nuclear program and other ballistic military weapons, absolutely. But, while I am fully open to the possibility that MSM did not report it or I missed it. I am very well educated and, since teen years, have kept up closely with tv, radio, and newspaper sources of news and to be honest, your comment is the first time I have seen that association made. Could I have missed it during my decades of back to back long shifts in the ER or during my many years of training? Yes. But, while I am not doubting you (and I absolutely have excoriated the pragmatism that accompanied the NAZI expertise that guided our military programs post WWII--despite knowing that all who came here may not have been EQUALLY culpable for the crimes of the NAZIs, but still...) I have not seen reporting that the worst of the worst of NAZIs were celebrated as the heroes of NASA. Sincerely, I have not.

That said, what happened to your family is unbelievably horrific and sad to me and I would certainly be sensitized to these issues in your shoes as well. So, if I missed it, I am sorry. I do still praise the NASA of the JFK years for their astounding accomplishments and hope that there was little, if any, direct praise for those whose work was rightfully marred by their prior acts or allegiances to Hitler's horror. NASA today has been so dismantled and all-but-destroyed, given Trump and Musk, that I doubt there is any legacy left. So there is that. I find that sad as well. Even if you have nothing but disdain for the NASA program, I'd find that cold comfort. But, I do understand.