[Nigel_S]

Originally Posted by jamesqf

But the basic technology and original prototypes were, in fact, developed in the US. See e.g. Robert H. Goddard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rockets were invented in China thousands of years ago, from there they spread to Mongolia, then India and then to the UK, it was the UK that introduced them to America. Goddard may have had some good ideas but the USA population certainly didn't make it "beyond low Earth orbit" on their own as was suggested.

Wernher von Braun: Wernher von Braun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - born in Poland, a descendent of King Edward III of England and who unlike Goddard actually worked at NASA on the Saturn V rocket that took the USA "beyond low Earth orbit"!