Von Braun Wheel: The Nazi Space Station You’ve Never Heard Of

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  @berrykirschbaum4488 · 1 year ago

  Von Braun Wheel, you've never heard of it before you started watching this video, and afterward, you've still never heard of it.

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• VE

  @vedahlubinka-cook3152 · 1 year ago

  What on Earth (pun intended) does this video have to do with a the Von Braun Wheel?  It's a nice documentary with inexplicable clickbait.

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• GI

  @gilbert1975nf · 1 year ago

  Now that's a perfect name for this video: the wheel space station we, still never heard of, included in this video.

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  @derekcope3803 · 1 year ago

  A great documentary about Von Braun and and the cold war space race, without one mention or picture of his space station design.

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  @Antonowskyfly · 1 year ago

  23.25 for the “space wheel” imagery. Maybe for your next trick you could show us how Professor Cuthbert Calculus built the first manned rocket to go to the moon.

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  @ThmsDouglas · 1 year ago

  Why use clickbait when the doc. stands on its own?

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  @dshan111 · 1 year ago

  An excellent documentary that doesn't mention the "Nazi space station" at all! The sad part is that von Braun's "wheel" space station (and Mars landing) plans (dating from his time in the USA postwar, not Nazi Germany) are fantastic historical events that are well worth a film on their own. Von Braun's work with Disney in the 1950s, where his space station and Moon/Mars landing plans were very influential on America's later Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs also deserve a significant part of that documentary.

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• CL

  @ClausB252 · 1 year ago

  👍 for the high quality documentary, 👎 for the click bait title.

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• BL

  @bluefrostedglass · 1 year ago

  The Von Braun Wheel was mentioned frequently by Walt Disney.<br> What’s next Spark? “Cinderella - The Princess you’ve never heard of?”

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• DR

  @drstevenrey · 1 year ago

  As expectations are low from the start, I am satisfied that the narrator pronounces Von Braun correctly. The footage is actually brilliant.

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  @natuerlichedummheit · 1 year ago

  Every modern rocket is a child of Werner von Braun and the V2.

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  @wrightmf · 1 year ago

  Using &quot;Nazi space station&quot; is a pure clickbait. However, it should be noted that Colliers magazine articles with the timeless artwork by Chesley Bonestell (yeah, weather worn landscapes on the moon is nonsense but his rendering still makes fantastic illustrations) provided the general public concepts of space travel i.e. staged rockets, types of fuels and oxidizers, orbiting stations for weather, communications, reconnaissance, spacesuits, re-entry heating, etc. Where before general public perception of space travel techniques where those of Flash Gordon and flying saucers.

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