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The Myth Makers

Walt Disney and Wernher Von Braun

Most Americans are aware of the German rocket engineer Wernher Von Braun’s association with
NASA. Following is an excerpt from Wikipedia.

In his twenties and early thirties, Wernher von Braun worked in Germany's rocket development
program, where he helped design and develop the V-2 rocket at Peenemünde during World War II.
Following the war, von Braun worked for the United States Army on an intermediate-range ballistic
missile (IRBM) program before his group was assimilated into NASA. Under NASA, he served as
director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn
V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon. According to
NASA, he is, "without doubt, the greatest rocket scientist in history," as well as the "Father of Rocket
Science." In 1975, he received the National Medal of Science. He continued insisting on the human
mission to Mars throughout his life.
[Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun]

What makes a deception particularly effective is the merging of truth and lies. A deception based
wholly on lies is implausible, and more difficult to sell to the public. NASA does employ rocket
scientists, and they do send rockets beyond Earth’s atmosphere. NASA, however, has never sent men
to the Moon, and Wernher Von Braun’s insistence that men can reach the planet Mars is only
credible to those who believe man has already walked on the lunar surface. As we have observed,
the Saturn V rocket, whose success is credited to Wernher Von Braun, was a work of deception. Its
publicized capabilities were exaggerated. NASA did not possess a heavy lift rocket with the
capability of sending 130 tons of equipment into lower earth orbit, and from there propelling men
all the way to the Moon.

Before taking the oversight position of the Saturn V development program, Wernher Von Braun had
declared that it would require a far more colossal rocket to reach the Moon. In the book Conquest
of the Moon, published in 1953, Wernher Von Braun made the following comments.

It is commonly believed that man will fly directly from the earth to the moon, but to do this, we
would require a vehicle of such gigantic proportions that it would prove an economic impossibility.
It would have to develop sufficient speed to penetrate the atmosphere and overcome the earth’s
gravity and, having traveled all the way to the moon, it must still have enough fuel to land safely and