how involved were Jews in the space race compared to other scientific fields?
Traditionally slightly less so, due to the huge participation of German nationals on both sides.
In the German Empire, Jews were usually unable to find work in experimental or practical physics. In Nazi Germany, they were outright banned from those fields before being deported. So when the German field of rocketry came along, it was entirely gentile.
>>1156499
makes sense
do you know much about the Russian side? Did the USSR also use ex-Nazi scientists?
>>1156527
It was basically Germans versus Germans
Rocketry had been pioneered by Germany since Weimar times
>>1156666
>>1156499
Not really, no. "German scientists" is largely a meme. Other than Von Braun, major American names in the space race are Abe Silverstein, Thomas Keith Glennan, Margaret Hamilton, Katherine Johnson, Robert Seamans, Floyd Thomson, Harry Allen, and a whole host of non-German names. Learn history, please.
>>1156666
Soviets did not use Germans to extent US did (and American part is overestimated too).
They grabbed a handful of second rate engineers and technicians who helped them build the Soviet copy of V2 and a few derivates, but the R7 that launched sputnik and its descendant Soyuz rockets were the brainchild of Korolev.
>>1156742
>silverstein
>non-german
>>1156933
>>1156742
>silverstein
>>1156947
>Ashkenazim
>Not Germanic
