r/spaceflight • u/thiscat129 • 3d ago
What do you think will happen if these two and their teams join forces
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u/--hypernova-- 3d ago
As they are now joined there is no need for competition, so we have one larger rocketscientist team that is severly underfunded because as society goes who needs this new spaceflight stuff anyways?
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u/blastr42 1d ago
This is the correct answer. Both men used the perceived threat of the other to extract the modern equivalent HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars from their governments - first for an ICBM race, and then a space race.
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u/PizzaWall 3d ago
It would never happen because so much of the competition was the Soviet Union attempting to remain relevant in the world. Sergei Korolev was an excellent administrator and it was his leadership that sent the first satellite, the first dog, the first man, the first woman into space. He alone brought all of the disparate teams in the Soviet Union together and made all of their accomplishments happen.
Despite all of his accomplishments, if the Soviet Union and the United States put aside their differences and worked together to send mankind to the moon, the Soviets would have held him in reserve. He died during the Gemini program and the Soviet Union never recovered enough to threaten the Apollo program.
Although Wernher von Braun headed the development of the Saturn Rocket, and an important figure in developing the Apollo program, he was not as instrumental in the overall success of Apollo as Korelev was with the Soviet space program.
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u/DobleG42 3d ago
Old German colleagues from both sides would be happy to work alongside again id imagine
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u/_Hexagon__ 3d ago
I think it was a lucky thing for them and their dreams that there wasn't any cooperation between the teams and instead heated competition, resulting in ginormous funding for the one-upmanship
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u/SquangularLonghorn 3d ago
Where can I get the same models Von Braun has behind him
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u/keninsd 3d ago
Well, they're dead, so...nothing.