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In many cases technical progress
is inseparable connected with the development of new weapons.
This is regarded especially for the over 100 years old history
of the former imperial artillery range in Kummersdorf-Gut. So
it doesn’t surprise, that the German army of the Third Reich
saw in that rockets nothing else as fast and far-reaching
missiles. And also it doesn’t surprise, that the army of the
Third Reich either cared for the private amateur scientist and
rocket do-it-yourselfers, which were active especially in
Berlin– or putted a stop to their practices. |
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That's why on the brink of the
artillery range the first rocket test stands were build, first
in the
east, then
also in the
west, mostly buildings similar to bunkers, closed
on three sides and with observation- and control installations
at the back,
particularly with fireproof emission drains in the ground. The technical success of the first propulsion -
aggregates and the aviation of the first rockets leaded to the
construction of the rocket testing ground Peenemünde on the
isle Usedom since 1936 – but in Kummersdorf there remained the
propulsion research and –testing. To this one founded the
research
institute Gottow with more test stands with connected
laboratories, which sense and function is not realized jet.
Most important "product" for the military rocket research was
the aggregate A 4 – support for the later "weapon of
retaliation V 2", but also a basis for the
booster rockets of
the later civil astronautics since the 2. half of the fifties.
So it doesn’t surprise that Kummersdorf is called the cradle
of the astronautics. |
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