>>50038456>Except for that time when he was focused on making moon rockets right?Yeah, after the war. He was working for us and we gave him an unlimited supply of cash after Sputnik scared the shit out of everyone in 1957. Before that, he was making ICBMs.
>Was the US cut down when the Russians had their space program?>Was Russia cut down when the US had their space program?Neither the US nor the USSR were at war with each other during the space race. That's how the space race happened, neither country was actively engaged in a conflict with each other but was preparing for one. War requires resources that would otherwise go towards moon rockets.
>Why would Germany have him only doing ICBMs after they won the war?They wouldn't have him doing anything after the war, assuming a German victory. He'd be an aging engineer complaining about how the NASDP keeps cutting his funding for more immediate concerns, like building the Breitspurbahn or sterilizing all slavs or reeducating all Brits. Without any enemies, there's no reason to fund a space program.
>What?Assuming Germany could get control of europe, Von Braun would have become a target for American spies since he was the one leading the V-2 program.
>Why?Because if Germany were to completely take over europe that would have pissed off the US whom they were actively at war with. Large superpowers don't naturally coexist peacefully so as soon as Britain and Russia were under German control the focus would have been on taking on the US somehow. This would have been a bloodbath, even with jet fighters and rockets, as the US had much better radar systems and a much greater capacity to build bombers and submarines (and, more importantly, nuclear weapons for them).
