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Did you know that the source of first successful human spaceflight was actually a result warfare inventions? SpaceTravel ColdWar Rockets
The Vostok spacecraft, which brought Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, to history on April 12, 1961, had its roots planted firmly in the battlegrounds of the Second World War. The rocket technology that ultimately powered Gagarin's mission was the innovation of German engineer Wernher von Braun, whose work was originally aimed at creating destructive V-2 rockets for Adolf Hitler's war machine. Post-war, von Braun and his team were recruited to America in a covert operation known as ‘Operation Paperclip’, almost to keep them from the hands of the Soviet Union. He then reoriented his engineering prowess for the cause of space exploration, playing a central role in the creation of Saturn V: the rocket that would eventually transport Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon. History often displays its peculiar dialectic, where something initially designed for destruction transforms into a vessel of human progress. The origin of human spaceflight, with its roots in world-scale turmoil and strife, isn't an exception . # History

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