Why astronauts rode NUCLEAR missiles #history

You were built to end the world. Everyone keeps using you as a cab. Sources - Imperial War Museums, V-2 rocket: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30020790 - Wikipedia, "V-2 rocket", "Mittelbau-Dora", "Wernher von Braun", "Operation Osoaviakhim", "R-7 Semyorka", "Sputnik 1", "Vostok 1", "Vanguard TV-3": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket - H. Langenberg, "Rocket retrospective", Nature (2001): the moon emblem on the 1942 rocket: https://www.nature.com/articles/35102642 - S. Khrushchev, "We Shocked the World", Air & Space: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/we-shocked-the-world-19693460/ - National Security Archive, Cold War interviews, O. Troyanovski: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/coldwar/interviews/episode-8/troyanovski2.html - NASA Office of Inspector General, IG-20-005 (2019), the cost of crew transport: https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-20-005.pdf - Spaceflight Now, "NASA uses final purchased Soyuz seat" (2020): https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/10/13/nasa-uses-final-purchased-soyuz-seat-for-wednesday-flight-to-station/ - collectSPACE, Soyuz MS-29 launch (2026): https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-071426a-soyuz-ms-29-dubrov-kikina-menon-launch.html Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/): "Carefree", "Sneaky Snitch", "Jaunty Gumption", "Lobby Time", "Amazing Plan". Sound effects: Kenney (kenney.nl) and Freesound contributors (CC0).