Just imagining a string of Saturn V failures putting 1969 Moon landing at risk but Werner von Braun is spending his time cancelling typewriter ribbon contracts at the Federal Highway Administration
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That feels like entirely too much credit to Musk. von Braun was actually involved with the Saturn project, this is more like the PR head for NASA at the time wasting their time with mostly frivolous cuts and some disastrous ones.
Fair enough, I'm just sick of him getting the prestige of being the mastermind behind all these companies when he is many steps removed from their actual products.
It would be grimly funny if it turned out that the V2, built with slave labour with every motivation to sabotage the product, had a lower failure rate than Starship.
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Von Braun was the technical genius behind the project.
Musk is just the boss with the whip.
Musk is like a mascot.