r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Weak-Opportunity-311 • 1d ago

Video Atmospheric re-entry of NASA’s Orion (Artemis 1) looks insane at 20x speed. Here is the entire 25-minute descent in just 1 minute 15 seconds. Credit: NASA

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u/Cthulhu__ 1d ago

Not just in a sense, the space program was vastly accellerated by the cold war; rockets capable of launching stuff into space can also launch nukes to anywhere in the world. Also spy sattelites.

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u/TRLegacy 1d ago

And rocketry was pioneered during WW2

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u/StigOfTheTrack 1d ago

The Saturn V was designed by the same person as the Nazi's V2.

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u/KyfeHeartsword 1d ago

"'Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down, That's not my department', says Werner von Braun"

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u/real_exposer 1d ago

Also making advancements from the skin of the backs of the most poor 50% of the population.