When the WWII ended, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were able to get many of their rocket scientists from Germany.
When the WWII ended, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were in charge of substantial German territory and resources and one such resource was rocket scientists.
Germany had led to way with rocket science in WWII and the U.S. and the Soviet Union leveraged on this knowledge to go into space.
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