The United States, after plucking him before the Soviets could get him, was launching V-2's in 1946 at White Sands under his supervision.
White Sands.
Of course these captured missiles were built by slave laborers, but we were quite willing to overlook that complication to advance rocket science.
Werner Von Braun had plenty of experience with rocketry, having fired lots of them at London's general area.
It's 2019. We are no where near Von Braun's practical experience with firing rockets with plasma confinement.
The NSTX fusion reactor at PPPL, which is not, and never will be a reactor functioning on the level as Von Braun's rockets in 1944, was severely damaged in 2016 and needed a year to be restarted and $94 million dollars.
We have already bet the planetary atmosphere on so called "renewable energy" at a cost of more than 2 trillion dollars in the last ten years alone. That's pretty "Apollo like" if you ask me. The result was failure. We are now seeing carbon dioxide concentrations of 415 ppm.
Speaking only for myself, I think it would be obscene to create another speculative "Apollo program" like the 2 trillion so called "renewable energy" experiment, when the "Manhattan Project" in the early 1940's has given us, albeit having been directed for war like purposes" a commercial technology that clearly works, and works extremely well, at least in the mind of anyone engaged in critical thinking.
I love PPPL. I believe it should be funded fully. I appreciate their efforts and their science. But they are not "Apollo" qualified, or, for that matter, "Manhattan Project" qualified.
In any case it is rare, very rare, for two men like Leslie Groves and Robert Oppenheimer to team up with essentially unlimited resources.
It is also rare that one can capture and hire a highly technically experienced war criminal and put him to work on something entirely different.
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