How the UK almost won the space race

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How the UK almost won the space race

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"The Space Race was almost a three-way race in the late 1940s when British designers created Megaroc from the earlier German V-2, the first craft capable of carrying a man into space."



Mark Felton's channel has lots of fascinating videos about military history. I particularly like the one about how the RAF nuked the USA - twice!
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Very interesting.
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Re: How the UK almost won the space race

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Very interesting. I know that after the Second World war main struggle was between two countries USA and USSR. And both countries used V-2 as an example of creating something that can go in space and out of the Earth`s atmosphere.
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