It's Rocket Science, Baby!

, but the road to success was beset with innumerable hurdles and stumbling blocks. Understandably enough, there was little need for rocket science in post-war Germany. The first seed for a future rocket programme was sown at the end of the fifties in Baden-Württemberg. Rocket researcher Eugen Sänger established the Rocket Engine Research Institute (Forschungsinstitut für Physik der Strahlantriebe) in Stuttgart, which later set up a test facility in the Harthäuser Forest near Heilbronn. In ...
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