From: Patrick McGrane [mailto:N2OEQ@aceweb.com]

The US brought Werner Von Braun here to the US to design rockets which included the Atlas 5.

Check your history. Von Braun worked on Redstone and Jupiter/Jupiter-C, since he was working for the Army. The original Atlas was the work of Karel Jan Bossart (who came to the US from Belgium in 1930), and was a USAF project. Von Braun left the Army to work for NASA at Marshall in 1960, where he led the Saturn program.

Atlas 5 was a *much* more recent program, it even came after Atlas II. The first Atlas 5 flight was in 2002.

Folks who read all of the thread in question know who *actually* busted Godwin's Law first. :-)

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