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The Father of Space Travel

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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The V2 Rocket

The V2 was a rocket-powered bomb. Traveling faster than the speed of sound, you couldn't hear it coming. A technological miracle, but a military and economic disaster for Nazi Germany. How did the V2 come into existence? And why were so many of the people it heard, not the people you might expect? Join me, Tim Harford, the host of cautionary tales for my brand new mini-series on the V2 rocket.

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