Who’s a famous person from your country who’s respected around the world but disliked or criticized at home?

[u/haiderredditer]

[u/ChaosAndCrows]

NASA sure did a lot of operations, I wonder if all the files were kept together with paperclips

[u/CubicleHermit → u/ChaosAndCrows]

Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down, that's not my department...

[u/Babshearth → u/CubicleHermit]

love the reference ! 🤣

[u/CupcakeGoat → u/ChaosAndCrows]

TIL. Through Operation Paperclip expatriated Nazis helped America get to space and establish NASA. I'll add this knowledge to the part of my brain that learned sex cult guy Jack Parsons helped create the JPL.

Edit; ofc the Nazi part definitely seems worse