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T O P I C R E V I E WNASAVideographerI am reading Gordon Cooper's autobiography "Leap of Faith" and he mentions conversations with Joaquin "Jack" Keutner, a member of von Braun's rocket team...in one conversation Keutner talks about a manned V-2 that was to be launched on a low-energy easterly orbit and the plan was to drop a warhead on New York City. Supposedly it came within a week of being launched in 1945. Now my question is this...was Keutner pulling Cooper's leg? Is this the Amerika rocket I have heard about? How can a V-2 be manned?Thanks,JamesMarshall TVHart SastrowardoyoTwenty-odd years ago, when Enola Gay was at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, my social studies teacher came across some photos - I think at the Proving Grounds - of a German photo showing an island with a gray rectangle in the middle. The photo was of New York City, the grey rectangle Central Park.Dennis Jenkins' Space Shuttle: A History of the National Space Transportation System has some background on the planned Amerika bomber. It wasn't a manned V-2, but rather an extension of the V-2 technology.machbustermanThere is the sole surviving Amerikarocket (can't remember the designation) on display at the RAF Museum at Cosford in Shropshire (England). It is at least twice the physical size of the A-2 (V-2) and would have been capable of delivering a high-explosive warhead to either the Eastern seaboard or West Coast of the continental United States. I'll scan my computer to see if I have a photograph of it.mmmooHeres a good site on the Amerika Bomber http://www.luft46.com/misc/sanger.html Mike ConstantineHart SastrowardoyoWhat I would love more than anything, if I won the lottery is to do an aerospace Mythbusters; that is, build the air and spacecraft that exists as designs only, and see if they would actually fly....divemasterthere's even a model available http://www.warmplastic.com/s-b.html eurospaceI think the guy's name was Joachim Kuettner, could that be?At least that's the only name similar to what you write that is in the list of Peenemündians who came to the US after the War.------------------Jürgen P EsdersBerlin, Germanyhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astroaddies
Now my question is this...was Keutner pulling Cooper's leg? Is this the Amerika rocket I have heard about? How can a V-2 be manned?
Thanks,
JamesMarshall TV
Dennis Jenkins' Space Shuttle: A History of the National Space Transportation System has some background on the planned Amerika bomber. It wasn't a manned V-2, but rather an extension of the V-2 technology.
Mike Constantine
At least that's the only name similar to what you write that is in the list of Peenemündians who came to the US after the War.
------------------Jürgen P EsdersBerlin, Germanyhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astroaddies
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