The conquest of space is above all a story of rivalry: it has known successes and failures. It is also a scene of clashes between the United States and Russia during the Cold War.
Passionate about space culture, Pierre-François Mouriaux is well acquainted with the history of the road that leads to the cosmos. He publishes “Towards the cosmos and beyond!” published by the Trésor.
In Wait a minute, he looks back on the darkest hours of this race for the stars, since the Second World War and the work on the missiles which made it possible to imagine the first rocket.
“Aeronautics was born out of darkness”
Pierre-François Mouriaux looks back on the story of a German engineer, Wernern Von Braun, who used labor from WWII concentration camps to develop his V2 missile to create one of the first rockets.
The feat of the conquest of space would therefore have origins less glorious than one might think at first glance.
The guest also returns to actors in the shadow of reactors, such as Sergei Korolev. The existence of this engineer was simply hidden. He was even interned in aircraft manufacturing factories.
Will win, will not win? Space is also the ground for clashes between the United States and Russia, until the Americans become the kings of space.