After WW2, where did the idea of going to the moon came from?
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Werner Von Braun wanted to send his rockets to space, make space stations, and fly is rockets off-planet. He just had the luck, good or bad, to end up working for the Nazi’s, who pushed him to make his rockets, but point them at the British. He is quoted as saying something like “the rocket flew perfectly, it just fell on the wrong planet” in reference to the first V2 rocket.
Why do I mention Werner Von Braun and the Nazi’s when you ask about “after ww2”? Well, he worked for the Nazis in ww2, but after, the US recognized his value as a rocket scientist, and put him to work with the early NASA forerunner, NACA. NACA had been experimenting with higher and faster planes, and paired with Von Braun, it didn’t stop.
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