Von Braun NASA HQ demolished today. Reminds you of WTC7, doesn't it?
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🤔💭 What were they hiding? 😲💡
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Building 7 was a cleaner pull.
Lol. I saw your comment on the page. Every comment was nearly the same.
Weird how they waste all that money on explosives and wiring, when they can just light some random fires for the same result.
hiding something underneath
The ignominious end to part of my family's story.
What did they do out there?
They were astronauts/engineers. Proteges of von Braun.
Was he Christian? Hard to imagine but von Braun made a video stating his belief in God and the danger of technology without Him
I don't know. My aunt and uncle worked under him in the 70s. Never really spoke much of it. Somehow my parents and mom's side of family all found their way into MK/MONARCH/CIA related lines of work. No one ever spoke about anything at any depth. I don't really have much of a relationship with my aunt so it's not like I can dig. Hell, when I was on social media, my parents defriended me for posting some stuff about Pizzagate early on. That, more than anything, propelled me down the rabbit hole...
I wonder if they needed to get rid of evidence.
Any theories guys?
Didn't look like there was any evidence left in that husk at all. I only saw empty concrete floors and and posts and beams; no walls to hide anything in even. It appeared even the glass from the windows had been removed before the demolition.
Yes, but I'm trying to find out if there was something held there that could have been significant to remove, and just level the place afterwards.
That certainly could be the case. It's weird though, seeing a building in that condition without walls or windows or anything else other than concrete slab floors and the uprights holding it all together. And the demo DOES remind of WTC7.
its underground.
What a moron on the clear to demolish. Haha, complete tool
He'll be remembered as part of United States history now.
For all my building 7 fans. This one is for you.
That was where world history was made. A sad end.
It was more expensive to renovate that building than it was to build a new one. They built a new building to house those employees. I wish this were some big news but it’s nothing. Promise. 😕
Of course. Life goes on. But it is disturbing to see that one can outlive a building. I have had that happen throughout my life and it is always saddening. What did they do there? They designed the Saturn 5 that took us to the Moon. Then they kicked von Braun upstairs to NASA HQ in Washington DC while they sent a hatchet man to fire the entire German design team from Peenemunde. Von Braun got cancer and died. I heard that news when I was driving through Los Angeles.
His office inside 4200 was gutted and now in a museum. The rockets were built miles away in other buildings
I didn't know they had the decency to preserve his office. Thanks for letting me know. Design work is always done in office spaces. Fabrication work is always done in machine shops, and assembly work in larger spaces. The Saturn V first stage was assembled at the Michoud facility in New Orleans and barged to the Cape for vehicle integration.
If I recall correctly, Von Braun's team from Peenemunde numbered about 300 staff, all of whom he knew individually as to talents and capabilities. He was like the conductor of a vast orchestra, and he knew exactly who to put in what place for a given purpose. That was the genius of his technical leadership method. He also emphasized the distribution of organizational level progress reports (this in the days well before e-mail distribution lists).
I can only envy the sense of accomplishment that he must have felt when men set foot on the Moon, a goal he had been popularizing for several decades.
Yep all true. You can see his “supposed” office recreation and read about project Paperclip at the Space and Rocket Center Museum.
I would think the recreation would be authentic. No reason to think otherwise. It was Operation Paperclip. A good history is "The Rocket Team" (2008) by Ordway & Sharpe.