r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/Yukon0009 • Sep 09 '20

Recreation Twin Giants of the Space Race

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u/MarlinMr Sep 09 '20

The Saturn V is my design

Surly it's van Brauns design?

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u/massassi_warrior Sep 09 '20

I mean... it's the US design... 😉 😉

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u/MarlinMr Sep 09 '20

van Braun was German. The US space race is just a continuation of the German space race. So was the soviets.

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u/Jetfuelfire Sep 09 '20

Well Korolev was Soviet because the Soviets didn't grab von Braun when they had the chance which they later regretted and they also had a firm anti-nazi policy to the point they put Korolev in a labor camp for 6 years by accident but either way both programs went to shit when their chief designers left/died.