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That video of Werner Von Braun's was remarkably prescient. A kind of combined Saturn and Space Shuttle. I'd never seen it before.
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Louis:
I haven't seen this stuff since I was a kid! Many thanks! What memories it brought back!
These were the proposals for spaceflight coming from Von Braun's group in the late 1940's, some of which was built upon ideas they came up with in the late 1930's and early 1940's over in Nazi Germany. The rockets bear a close kinship to the V-2 (actually A-4), its two-stage cousin the A-9/A-10 ICBM, and its winged cousin, the A-4b (which actually did fly in combat). But, of course they do.
Add to this the early 1950's thinking about cesium-propellant ion engines, and you have the genesis of the 1956 Disney "Tomorrowland" short films on spaceflight, the last of which dealt with a slowboat trip to Mars in a fleet of giant ion-propelled ships (resembling umbrellas) with rocket landers. I think I can get those old films on DVD now. What a hoot. And, some of those ideas are still good today, but not all.
In those Disney films, the Earth orbit ferry ships , the wheel space station, and the moon ships, were all exactly these same late 1940's Von Braun stuff.
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