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Old 09-02-2018, 09:54 PM   #2696 (permalink)
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Once you get above 600-800V it will jump out and get you.

I know Sputnik is probably before your time. What do you think of the hypothesis that Operation Paperclip was sabatoging the American USAF program, so it was taken from them and given to the Army before any success — then JFK bought the Hungarian space program from Tito and that became the Apollo program that went to the Moon?

54 years from the Wright brothers to orbit.
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