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Originally Posted by Nigel_S
NASA still uses solid rockets and the space shuttle would never have left the ground without its solid rocket boosters!
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Which have about as much relationship to Chinese gunpowder-fueled rockets as they do to squid :-)
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So the USA imported most of the knowledge, expertise and experience used to make the Saturn V rockets...
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By the same logic, you could claim that the entire world automotive industry was based on the knowledge, expertise and experience of Karl Benz.
Even accepting your claim that the US space program was entirely based on German work (whichis obvious BS: even if the Saturn V was a scaled-up V2, the work of actually building them was done in the US), the population of Germany in 1935-45 was between 66-72 million. Add that to the US population circa 1970, and you still have a total of under 300 million. That combined population could and did not only develop a space program; it did so while fighting major wars, and doing much other scientific research, and technical, industrial, and cultural development. So the idea that a population numbering in the billions is needed to develop a space program is
pure unadulterated crap (ok, I'll be nice) badly mistaken.