In a World where the Nazis won WW2, how advanced would spaceflight be?

Is my friend being realistic in his viewpoint?

  • Yes

    Votes: 5 8.3%
  • No

    Votes: 55 91.7%

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Without touching the third rail of comparative politics, the following comes to mind. Spaceflight, as imagined and conducted today is wildly expensive. Under NASA policies, when could a Lindbergh be cleared for a transatlantic flight? Testing of his relief tube would probably occupy most of 1933, and wind up costing many times more than the entire Spirit of St. Louis. If space exploration tolerated the risk level of early aviation, I believe that we would have been on Mars long ago.

Dynasoar
 
I could see Göring being pro space and the Luftwaffe being in charge of the space program. More laurels and prestige for Göring to take credit for, Hitler conquered Europe, Göring conquers space.
It be the best way for Göring to ensure he'd be remembered.
 
Without touching the third rail of comparative politics, the following comes to mind. Spaceflight, as imagined and conducted today is wildly expensive. Under NASA policies, when could a Lindbergh be cleared for a transatlantic flight? Testing of his relief tube would probably occupy most of 1933, and wind up costing many times more than the entire Spirit of St. Louis. If space exploration tolerated the risk level of early aviation, I believe that we would have been on Mars long ago.

Dynasoar

Isn't the problem that space has no natural resources of value and is a vacuum of death and terror?
 
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Anyway, the problem is clearly that the ::checks notes: Soviet Union was too risk averse, which is why we don't have moon colonies.
 
Anyway, the problem is clearly that the ::checks notes: Soviet Union was too risk averse, which is why we don't have moon colonies.

USSR's closed society had the power to retouch photos to eliminate failures. Their problems were technological; ours bureaucratic.

Dynasoar
 
Not always failures. The poor guy who was removed from the photo of the German General signing the surrender at Stalingrad because Stalin said he wasn’t senior enough, was shitting himself cause he had no idea what he’d done wrong!
 
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