The Space Race | Starting Gun | 1
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English - May 16, 2018 07:05 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 17.6K ratingsHistory Kids & Family Education for Kids america history cold war prohibition Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Remember Werner von Braun? We talked a little bit about him in our Cold War series. He was in charge of the German rocket program in World War II. First used to lob missiles and bombs all over Europe, von Braun always dreamed of something better for his rockets. As the Soviet and American forces were closing in on Germany to end the war, von Braun saw only one way out: surrender to the American forces and get to the States.
Amid the wreckage of the Third Reich, the first leg of the Space Race would be a sprint to locate von Braun.
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