By "your" I assume you mean America's. There were a bunch of German rocket scientists repatriated to the US after World War II, but the one you're probably thinking of is Wernher von Braun.
Germany. After World War II, the US and the USSR both recruited German rocket scientists, led by Wernher von Braun, to jumpstart their own space programs.
So that scientists could investigate the biological effects of space travel without risking the lives of humans.
No, Republicans generally supported the Apollo space program, which was initiated by President John F. Kennedy in response to the Soviet Union launching the first man-made satellite, Sputnik. The program had bipartisan support in Congress and was seen as a symbol of American technological achievement and leadership during the Cold War.
Germany's use of the V2 rocket during WW2 was the inspiration for the Space program. In fact many of the Scientists that worked on the V2 went to work for either Russia or America after the war.
The Sputnik program started on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. This event marked the beginning of the space age and initiated the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Wernher von Braun was the German rocket scientist who led the American space program to the moon. He was a key figure in developing the Saturn V rocket that propelled the Apollo missions to the moon.
Project Mercury was the first manned US space program, consisting of six flights between 1961 and 1963. Of these, two were sub-orbital flights while the last four all completed at least one orbit of the Earth.
Albert Einstein Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist and architect of the US space program
A total of 355 individuals have flown in the space shuttle program, which operated from 1981 to 2011. This number includes astronauts, scientists, and civilians who participated in various missions during the program's duration.
No, the space shuttle program was retired in 2011. NASA has shifted its focus to new spacecraft, such as the SpaceX Crew Dragon and Boeing's Starliner, for future missions to space.
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