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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: JNugentJNugent Date: Aug 24, 2008 01:17
Steve Firth wrote:
> JNugent NPPTG.com> wrote:
>> Ian D Henden wrote:
>> von Braun, you mean?
> "Don't say that he's hypocritical
> Say rather that he's apolitical
> "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down
> That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun
> Some have harsh words for this man of renown
> But some think our attitude should be one of gratitude
> Like the widows and cripples in old London town
> Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun"
> (A snippet of) Wernher Von Braun by Tom Lehrer.
Ah... but who can forget (during the early intense part of The Space
Race in the late fifties) that there was a Hollywood tribte movie to
cuddly old Werner?
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