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One thing that’s important to remember about the space program in the United States; until 1957 it was not a civilian program. For the first ten years or fifteen years of its existence it was a military program. There was no NASA. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration had not been created yet, so all of these people worked for the military. The rocket program was a military program and you have to remember that that’s the origins of the space program — was with the army. Which later became the Army Airforce, which later became the…NASA, I mean the space program went under [the title] NASA. These were supposed to be “our” Nazis, right? We were sold a bill of goods; I mean the United States was told, “oh, these people were not really Nazis, they were Germans, they were scientists, they were helping out, they were working for us, you know, they really weren’t [Nazi] believers. Yeah, right! Why then, if this is so, did we bring the best and the brightest to the United States, give them whatever they wanted — all the resources that they wanted; whatever they needed, whatever they asked for; and the Soviet Union was the first country to launch a satellite into space?