Reminder to the folks ragging on SpaceX because "Elon Musk is a Nazi" and asking why private corporations are doing this space stuff: the Apollo program was led by former SS-Sturmbannführer Wernher von Braun. It's almost like Space Nazis are a recurring trope in this time line!
(Fn: Von Braun claimed—after the war—that he only joined the NSDAP because he'd be booted from the German rocketry program if he didn't. Musk has no such excuse, however ...)
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