Nazi Space Policy

The Nazi Environmental Policy got me thinking.

Assuming Nazi Germany survived to the present day, would it really be first to launch a satellite into orbit? A manned capsule to orbit? A manned mission to the moon? to mars?

Many people would automatically say yes to the first three, and a substantial number would say yes to four. But.......

I'm not so sure about the third one. Would Himmler support such if he was Fuhrer? Would Goering support such? Remember, the Apollo program was expensive, very much so. While a surviving Nazi Germany is going to have Von Braun, many of his plans were quite grandiose. Workable, but grandiose. And expensive. Would Nazi Germany support such schemes without a rival, just to show the zenith of "Aryan" science?

And if Nazi Germany does go to the moon, what rocket would they use? Something closer to NOVA, or a more reasonable Saturn V type rocket?
 
As in a Nazi victory, the Nazis would deliberately destroy any opposing states, except perhaps the Japanese, who had less in the way of rocket science expertise, and even in victory, hard wealth, I'd say that yes, they'd be the first to do any of the above.

Now, whether they'd beat OTL, or whether they'd do it, is another question. I think they might, if only for the prestige factor. For the Nazis, doing things the "big" way, especially for Hitler, was the most important thing. During Hitler's lifetime, I could see him backing space programs. Depending on who succeeds him, I think that might change. Himmler was even more into the blood and soil stuff than Hitler was, and might generally be hostile to technological endeavors.
 
Himmler was even more into the blood and soil stuff than Hitler was, and might generally be hostile to technological endeavors.

Himmler generally be hostile to technological endeavors ?
the SS run the V2 rocket program !

for the rest (under the assumption there is a Cold War after this WW2)
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/a9a10.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/a9a10a11.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/a9a11a12.htm
and that
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/vonation.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/vonander.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/vonn1956.htm
 

Heh, my mistake. I assumed that Hitler was the driving force behind most of these projects, and that Himmler was anti-technological because of his fanatical agrarianism.
 

Nietzsche

Banned
I'm sorry, who promised you this?
I promised me this. That makes it law. <_< Now get to it before I send in my commandos. Two funnel-web spiders, a sting ray and eighteen tons of glow-in-the-dark, starving scorpions. The last of which shall be air lifted and dropped on said resistors.

Are you against the anti-science, non-lesbian Terran agenda?
 
Hm. We've already got Nazis and Space here, where are the Lesbians? I was promised lesbians!
I'm sorry, who promised you this?
I promised me this. That makes it law. <_< Now get to it before I send in my commandos. Two funnel-web spiders, a sting ray and eighteen tons of glow-in-the-dark, starving scorpions. The last of which shall be air lifted and dropped on said resistors.

Are you against the anti-science, non-lesbian Terran agenda?

Would that I could sig this...
 
Gurps AE has them capturing asteroids for mining and planning to terraform Mars in the 1990s, but that's not the only far-fetched thing ITTL. I mean, they and their allies reign the whole world.
 
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