Should we be wary of celebrating the moon landings given it was white and male?

Wibbs wrote: »

The Russians grabbed a few too, though to be fair to them they worked the ex nazis like slaves and when done with them off to the gulags they tended to go, where they were worked, starved or plain shot to death. Few enough survived that. Proper order. No dinners with the Soviet premier in the Kremlin.

But in spite of the nitric acid troubles, one of the Germans be
thought himself of Noggerath's equation relating propellant density
to range, and decided to make a few points with his new bosses.*
He decided that a V-2 loaded with nitric acid and a really high-density
fuel would have a range that would make him a Hero of the Soviet
Union, at least, and set out to make that really high density fuel. So
he mixed up 10 percent of toluene, and 50 percent of dimethylaniline,
and 40 percent of dibromoethane. He got a high density all
right —something like 1.4 —but what those bromines did to the
specific impulse was a crime. His Russian bosses, who were not fools,
took one horrified look at what he was doing, and immediately took
all his chemicals away from him. And four weeks later he was hauled
up before a People's Tribunal, tried, convicted, and fined 4000 rubles
for, in the words of the court, "Misleading Soviet Science." He was
lucky. If I had been on the tribunal he'd have gone to Siberia for
ninety years, and the charge would have been Exuberant Stupidity.
The Russians were happy when he went back home. With an ally
like that who needs enemies?

Beast4mdaeast wrote: »

But one side never faces earth ??