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the 1960 s. the united states and the soviet union were employees in a race into space. it was a contest involving huge amounts of material and personnel. nasa alone employed thousands of people with the goal of putting an american on the mail. but it wasn't just the americans and the russians who were reaching for the stars a small company from got consisting of half a dozen engineers wanted to go toe to toe with the superpowers. the premise of our premise was not to go high tech but to go low cost cost. look up more to get us all toggles the 1st ever private space and home office from

. the shop if you want to get i heard they were going to launch a rocket or done at the launch site would be somewhere in africa and that's when they came up with zaire. almost all odds we looked at the map which is where you are in iraq no. because of the scale sued us roughly will i have this kneeling that going to the jungle was somehow like opening the door to some a fantasy world i think the bush on. the idea of doing in zaire geographically made sense as a trend out diplomatically it was a disaster. she wouldn't. if you want to start a technically high risk enterprise what do you do not risk it because you go to a venture capitalist or just my little angel investor joe you and i hear you all go

to silicon valley loft over to visit if your business partners name is mobutu say. and something is wrong. it's a crazy story. but there was also a pair of that program or truck was the 1st suffocation over the ideas of what's kaiser. during the 1st evolution but thought it was the road. to. truth will have a skies or kaiser was lost. i never saw him there again. this feeling i get all started when i read these books that vanna found pound written for war and usually mugs. as

a schoolboy i wrote a letter to vanna from asking him what he thought i should become a real an astronaut or a rocket engineer the sort he replied was also you want to tone and heavy to be an astronaut and that we need light people this weekend so i took the easy route and anyway the probability of becoming an astronaut is very remote. they can jake island a tiny spot of land in the middle of the pacific ocean between hawaii and papua new guinea. with his rocket venture behind him this secluded spot is where look still kaiser ended up with his wife susanna the man who spent much of his career reaching for the stars is now spending. his old age like a bump in some crazy says only a few centimeters above sea level his life began on almost exactly the opposite side of the globe british drivers born in stuttgart that was 6 years old at the end

of the war when as well as kids we used to enjoy running around them and collecting old ammunition which will crack open the door and then sprinkle the black powder that was inside in stripes onto the ground which we then set on fire so. that it was very dangerous given our parents were unaware of our antics through that's how it was after the war in korea collected bomb fragments and i mean as short as some good as well that's what we played with there were no other toys obstinate. when i was still at school i founded and led a group of students like that for british that's how i came to study aerospace engineering in a group home. in post-war germany looks kaiser was a pioneer best all the former german space experts had long since left to work for the russians the americans. as well and the self would it was a very exciting time because it was officially forbidden by the occupation statute

to produce supersonic flight. quickly found partners in crime drugs i don't know processed it coming in 1965 i arrived at the technical university of chicago you know looks kaiser or he had founded the a.g.r. are a working group for rocketry and space quite at the university of st started. in the early years the rocket crazy students had to mainly improvise. their 1st experiments took place here. a spot and for a look now there was an old bunker that needed some stairs which a group of us built correctly 93 we put in the fuel tanks of pipes measuring instruments. you lie too and that's where we tested a small liquid propellant rocket engineers who said cats are typically effective get tested.

him i didn't get beat this to this was on the outskirts of the district court suburb but country understandable today it was right near residential areas but we spent all our free time tables for free and i have a product. that's kaiser was adept at negotiating with the american military also retains they issued him a special permit for his officially forbidding missile tests as a result of his group was among the fastest to succeed in building a functioning rocket engines to the world. because you saw mr cars or you and your colleagues at the vienna fun pollens of tomorrow and we want to try and learn from the modern problems that are inherent in

rocket technology in space research from now on. let's have a german stock and they did with just a slightly thermos but what did they do in the eldar as it was called back there the europeans work together to build their own rockets and it didn't work they exploded or whatever is an expert the year that there was no space flight test cap was kind of my. lack of the takeoff of a european rocket 2 years ago in australia with the launch vehicle built by britain france and germany was a failure on france aka the then economy minister who posed the question. opus nish why there wasn't a much cheaper method of going into spanks. you have more uncertainties or stewardship of alban as a group of students we applied for this research. and were subsequently given a development contract worth 3 and a half 1000000 german marks of talk to. the students proposal was

radically simple. namely. i know of course you see we bundled together a large number of small rocket engines which could be produced very cheaply by serial production. by using such existing mass produced parts the production costs would be reduced still further. and so we built an injection that had a volkswagen the windshield wiper motor as its electric drive. that turned us the reputation. they fly rockets with windshield wiper motor but they were only used to driving mechanism putting the valves closing the valves opening halfway closing exactly what a windshield wiper motor does perfectly the us was in shock and that was our philosophy not high tech but low cost and. fee type take some low cost. in addition to the half dozen engineers in the project qualified technicians will all say recreated the scene 1st almost 2 years we drive up the highway to

loblaws with one of the engines in the trunk of the car as. it was put on the test bench there and then it was tested it tasted. good. place an economical and inventive the rockets made in slaby it was taking shape. it would have been observed if the swabian said anything able to make cars and refrigerators. the test facilities at one place housed in the hyatt on the beam testing the rocket engines since 963. didn't end up in landfills alcohol we carried out about 2000 combustion tests with this low cost and any reason to believe the fact if you missed all of them a choice it took us 2 years to realize that if instead of a liquid and oxygen and liquid hydrogen switched off we use nitric acid which has such a high density or he could put

a lot more fuel into the ride so if you know another kid to go with the bring come . let's kinds or in his group are not the only people doing tests in one parts house and rocket pounds from all over europe where arriving to be tried out here. kinds is engines began to arouse interest among the competition. these are for we already had a cooperation with another aerospace enterprise in france and they were always curious about what we were doing here is he a good as they were concerned that it might be used to compete with the arian program it's called grow and ski this hour and that it's the world. in the ne 970 s. the german government decided to join the european space agency isa. could tie up

its oil before strong and then we were notified by your research is all well and good and see if we can no longer finance our mission if we also don't want to finance it further kind got speeches and that was the end of our and out into it so from. our love life. that's what's and that made me to think it's either you file away years of work and say ok it's over one soft but we didn't want to do that and let's kaiser certainly didn't include sky's social garment. destructors role in that he said so if we can't get any subsidies will do projects like revive it and we founded a public limited company i know a shaft or truck. to appear as credible as possible

to potential donors kinds a child to win over the man who had helped to get the americans to the moon the van i found was to become chairman of the supervisory board when he became so ill with kidney disease he said dr davis could do it just as well for mr kerr the restroom would work great from brown appear one day and later on refer us army and the nasa had been the director of a carrier space or and he was an old rocket man. could keep a straight cover debuts whereas the thai kaiser carries the model of the rocket mr davis with lots of experience from the moon landing program for months on the program and as to kaiser he gives the presentation into a course set up as a right of company took in more than $160000000.00 mox within a year kaiser's rock it became an investment object for the wealthy ending it the nickname dentists' rocket. sized bins

a seach made this meant that if you invest $1000000.00 you could buy it off $2600000.00 as losses for tax purposes as follows to up shrive. good with the same single components the same tank modules the same engine modules we can build small medium and very large rockets and fulfill all specifications can legalize that time we had fully developed the technology and eventually tested everything the next the next stage was flight testing which we couldn't do in germany for insurance reasons as the population density is too hot wars as to. how the needy founded otranto finally found the launch site is one of the most bizarre chapters in space history. in myanmar and seen a few insects ish 1974. it was the year of the historic boxing if known as the

rumble in the jungle it's between muhammad ali and george foreman when george forman the bad guy in that there may not that one of the people who organized this fight also here at new york which president. and internationally active businessmen we met by chance on the airplane flights and i think they take inventory started talking what do you do hobby i organize boxing fights among other things what do you do. we build rockets but we don't have a launch site of a country club and he said what about so you're suggesting that so you're with. the central african state of today's democratic republic of congo that gained independence from belgium in 1960. s. political leaders amadou to say say see you killed they came to power in 1960 surely i don't weakness for german technology. this is over 2000000 troops and for whom you take

a plane and fly around and see if you can find something suitable from my. angle i want to come to the 1st observation stuff online supply more surveillance of mine going to this it will come down to that like the prestige value of having a space launch site in africa in his own country and the 1st one to launch satellites from africa would be attractive in a long range and assuring 0 money probably talked loudest to it it. was extremely corrupt. yalit book but he was supported at the time by the french the americans felt as a john and generally by the europeans. because neighboring angola was supported by and also impact country missiles to be part of the sharif. for one bush during the. provided for under limited use of 100000 square kilometers

of territory similar to the area of the former g.d.r. which had 104000 square kilometers have you had to look for a top committed as this was a huge area which requires hardly manage with our $34050.00 employees. the contract signed in 1075 was not determinable until 2025 the site is located in the south of say between angola and tanzania it was sponsoring populated but there were regular scam issues of the buddhist between the enemy states the would. be harm done i knew a whole lot tory and we found a high plateau in the middle of these 100000 square kilometer just went numb to blood flow was the little river next to a dense jungle and can above that was the highlands where the climate similar to switzerland's. gun. was in the open mic more time group of chainsaws rolled sound

from the helicopter and quickly cleared a 20 to 30 meter diameter area for the helicopter to land on the plugs to get back on the saw and bit by bit we cleared the plateau not who knocked. the order in order to build the infrastructure in the middle of the jungle track teamed up with a civil engineer with a lot of experience in africa and extended them on his company's staving had already realized numerous projects in his i. mean i thought they were all weird it wasn't the 1st thing is the mark they were 78 people it was someone really the end of the world where no one's ever seen before and that's where they went i looked at them until they're not exactly who sprinkle just. with time you learn a lot through experience you know. and i thought what on earth is this like doing

in the bush if your sister asked for divorce not. to live a man succeeded in building a 4 kilometer long runway through the rough terrain on the plateau soon afterwards the runway would be listed on international flight charts under the name louvel at port. for the move from gemini to zaire oh charged boat traffic and subsequently founded its own and line under the congolese fly half. way in the lifeboat from from the british air force of the painted on fire engine red so we could find them in the barge was.

on i thank you our own courses so to set up a big open temple where the team assembled the rockets and since i moved all i describe in the day it was basically a balloon like a beer tent to drive etc we called the tent the by their embassy. thanks. initially the 40 strong team setting tents for the 1st team months well it's a good choice built using local materials. to showcase of the complex was the restaurant with a total of 80 seats thanks i was. only one and a half years after the start of the working phone we were able to carry out our 1st . trial run was we bought her skull from the local wood so we ran to the rocket to

work adulthood. from there was this amazing feeling of optimism and you couldn't help but think of the for this is going to succeed it was just looking for damage. and space flight was not what the track had in mind the aim was to don't satellites into space with its rockets. the 1st test took it was 6 meters no. attention was time as the team made the final little preparation as thanks to smallville that was may 17th 1987 a really exciting day for all of us which ones i did. it was one percent freedom i was a bit of a film and thought oh man i know how to plots i used a house or log the camera that the astronauts took with them to the movie. big notes or in the middle of the staff all took up of course going up to

a lake in general and then came the countdown to 0. from 10 to 0 of. ah. keep it under and up into the blue sky as i year. there was a ton of play loud with a tip it went top 10 kilometers easy a kilometer whoa the successful 1st step out to coast consternation elsewhere the

program was taken seriously. after these launch because they really have a rock it didn't help that one particular clip was taken with high speed film i saw that multiple times on american television. so i just familiar. ignition and liftoff but this is not cape canaveral or a soviet launch pad the playing of that trick or a film at the wrong speed gave the impression of a giant threatening rocket rather than a safe useful commercial rocket. that will make the americans and soviets during the cold war they were paying close attention to who was building rockets. that were frequent reports that the russians had launched to spy satellites to observe the electronic signs from the bow of. the

workers on the plateau when i was aware of this. we were pretty off the beaten track and unaware of what was going on elsewhere there wasn't much wrong with the world up there or the law each detail of the conflict. of the uncivil war from my life i used to make my own sausages lies lies and white drop words real sausage. i also made a fine salami cocktail of sausage for my they were very popular and i can call. my trust. said good on going along and i was i was more of a welshman they also made a kind of blood sausage a liver sausage will be and i was also my restaurant would be on the out of my mind

a. bit of you often enough. to see it albeit i also tried making a game salami with annele and wild boar. there was a lot of what i feel. from each was for me it was a pure adventure. a real adventure. of all of the there for 2 or 3 days then he'd fly away again be on the road for a week and then come back i'm. 43 years old one of the most colorful figures in the international space industry among other things on the blues the main channel that i'm chairman of the supervisory board of trying to keep the aim of this company is to transport satellites into. introspective both who wants the satellites launched vehicle to want to spot that he is also not it wasn't just mobutu who said he would launch spy satellites for anybody and that was

a serious concern to both the u.s. and soviet military because it's progress they knew about each other's programs they did not like the idea of other countries having the same pictures as they were getting because they were things that they couldn't hide from each other but they wanted to hide from the rest of the world. the french government as well wanted the rocket program shut down. they were the primary contributor to the area and commercial our system so anything that would distract from their business was something that the french really very eager to to strangle. her. for her underestimating the political importance of ships to.

him ali because shift. a former chief correspondent for the new york times has scholtz out published an article in the girly magazine penthouse claiming that the germans were testing secret cruise missiles on behalf of the germans are sources inside your mouth talked about in the script but in this via insight you have a test and this is the magazine that published historian and in it there's a 2 page spread of a painting allegedly showing a cruise missile flying over in fact a draft. i was cute about it is they put all the right symbols on their pleasant eyes i am cross on the wrong confusing notches. or that was absolutely fictitious.

extolled there. they were scientists as real as the giraffes in the picture. this was imagine or but it was imaginary in a very deliberate purpose and do a lot of damage and in fact killed a lot of people. in central africa the cold war was heating up rebel forces operating out of socialist angola across the border until the city of cholesky the . base served as a pretext for the attack. again that it did it certainly given the scarcely concealed military kind of tried and given that drag booker prize part of the territory of say yes it follows that tribe is an enemy that must be removed. at b.d.c.

generalist informed imminent rebel attacks on the. well not to be shown on of course you get scared if you think you're going to get murdered. i'm up at fit. me. that order that they want to tell on the people up there i said this is crazy 1st of all we're not military experts to see if it was good and it's more dangerous for us than for anyone who's threatening us here. we needed people to take charge of security. i mean it was when i arrived on the plateau my 1st impression was things weren't very serious cuts i mean for former legionnaire starting a missile base. that's not very serious. the

legion is began training local people as security troops. but with all of the uniforms in germany and online you. get to meet them in we equip them with used clothing made them look like soldiers which they were mostly. disuse it was just showed us that soldier as simple as that simply because. there wasn't much behind it really. had received much international criticism for the rocket hate trying to visit saying gee 978.

we have announced a launch and somehow the governor of new omaha she found out about her through the fall he told me that we were planning a takeoff on a saturday to intervene and suddenly there he was one morning landing in his how kelly's on i feel through clothes. who don't practice i never mobutu not only brought his extended family is something he brought his entire government team with him and for the defense minister interior minister when i needed a large number of journalists from all over the world a. long . long and. it was a big there's so many of. it you see she was there's

a well he's got all the scientific. part up as i said a lot of subtle measurement but somebody else went up to the altar suppose he doubled the. the film you're coming for you all the physic to for this show to shed. the fame and the film for the fall because you know the fed is going to say this is such a. good deal my sense of us as the film is going to. see how many. things. that get sent but i say. all right i'll save it thanks ben. but i. know

it. well the think. there. was. no but if you. look this was an important test launch of the about this and the fact that it failed in the presence of mobutu encourage the french soviets americans and possibly also to germans to convince mobutu to stop the project you know arguing that it would only damage his reputation but the toff. that.

voter was supposed to want us and this importations like you have received weapons assistance and financial aid in return because you told us you can stay in the country but no more rocket launches what kind of marketing starts. this another drama was about to engulf the track in the summer of 1979. those were the general idea was that from time to time we do something together for a day or so the trip into the bush or whatever was on trust. because your talking points a game up with the idea of flying a boat to

a lake about 80 kilometers away and going down the river you're going to find that was 3 weeks before we left to her before was talking. in front of us who decide which to she i was on the air it was really nice and we thought it would be nice we had laid down the river just floating along just a nice and relaxation for to on going in the fall into the fire. this was a big thing for about 8 people person some wanted to couple of and those that didn't stay in there though i was the our villages of course i went along with. other consumer. everyone was in good spirit does or thought the river was while there were some fairly big waves which we hadn't seen from the player. because we

all laughed the waves crashed over the sides as soon as we're both started shaking took on a lot of water and hard for it was hard to find out i hear them fusspot. born done it since washed it descend on them with 2 and then 2 of the team met us on motorbikes i'm off to fish for food we plan to walk alex off to one of them said he didn't feel like riding back again so i said i'd take the bike back for a week or 2 o'clock. towards evening some guys arrived and said that founded part boat then was after.

we had the old truck helicopter and one from the zaire anomaly it was. sort of blue the we searched everywhere and were able to fly low above the river because they were hardly any trees with the visibility was good and we had binoculars but the river had so many different channels that's what made it very complicated and suited we couldn't recover all of them love of you to shoot through with producers. clickable you go you get to recover the bodies the result the raphael gianni and me

with no one helped us we had to take a. the risk on our own. they were lying there in the water bodies all black and horrible. to think about is the funding. graph. you want to imagine we were actually a pretty tight knit group before those were all friends who died there not just work colleagues but real friends for and with. the industry that was in that they all died and i was the sole survivor show that's still something i can't understand it's a little as well i'm. ok it was the boat but why is cutting so

a cover sometimes you need a little luck in life. but . i think in the news different the only one they didn't manage to find was last until may of us never heard anything about him again he was simply gone from. the public prosecutor's office in stuttgart trying to investigate what they gave up relatively quickly divert the suspicion that some secret service was behind it was wanted and couldn't be disproven if the but it can't be proven either reason will.

as he think it's hard to feel i think that kind of broke the back of the old truck company. give you think having these 7 technicians died there suddenly the delphi model get comments and. just as the repetition ego caught up in the powerful currents of the new whoever if so did get caught up in the machinery of world politics and ultimately fell by the wayside. we need people like kaiser to keep pushing the envelope and pushing the technology beyond words even a rational a plausible because we have to find out where the boundary of us.

and during a project like go drive for all the consequences of the other inner verdant consequences are sometimes fatal consequences to people or off our. space technology is by nature of a life threatening technology it is so difficult to build a rocket to get into orbit with very useful payload you have to cut corners everywhere you care but knowing where you can and can't crack corners remains a question for human judgement and human folly. heaven only knows with a kaiser's work it's would never have been seriously competitive. was forced to bend to political pressure before it really got started its. the cooperation with the controversial despot in the bush 2 and the competition's fears of a viable german rocket led to the early end of the enterprise. kaiser's format

empire shrank to the size of a pacific island and he himself remained convinced of the feasibility of his rockets he continued to risk. to wait and research and the thing that people would one day appreciate his invention for was it was. find this is one of the original rocking tanks from our flight test program. we develop these modules. which can be assembled from individual parts. real like a lego and the filming of all of the entire rockets can be assembled by 3 technicians on the board will. it was never destined to see whether history would become a reality. let's kaiser died on his island shortly after the end of the shooting for this film.

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