Movie Semireview: I Aim At The Stars

"Rusty Shackelford" wrote in message
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Interesting. Apparently they truncated the subtitle of Dr. von Braun's
biography. The real title was:



I Aim at the Stars
(but I often hit London)



Really, ask any Brit old enough to remember WWII.

Or ask any fan of Tom Lehrer. :-)

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Greg Moore
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Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
"Rusty Shackelford" wrote in message
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Interesting. Apparently they truncated the subtitle of Dr. von Braun's
biography. The real title was:



I Aim at the Stars
(but I often hit London)



Really, ask any Brit old enough to remember WWII.

Or ask any fan of Tom Lehrer. :-)


Thanks for the reminder, I'd forgotten that old Tom Lehrer song. Very
much in the same spirit.

I used to work with a Brit who was one of a handful of British engineers
who worked on the Apollo program under von Braun. That sarcastic
response to von Braun's "I Aim for the Stars" was a pretty common joke
amongst the small British engineering community that worked under von
Braun at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) back in the
1960's/early 1970's. Most of them respected von Braun's technological
foresight and public relation's savvy, but had lingering doubts about
the man's ethical standards. A complex man to say the least.