Ya, ya, Piggy, with all due respect, heard this one before?
Most Austrians would like the world to believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven was Austrian. Ya, ya. And it need not require a degree in rocket science to suss out that the essential difference between the Jerry and the Pom is that the former has a civilization, the latter only traditions.
Ya, as you said, one must not hold grudges forever, so it's also time that we cease reminding the Germans of the sins that their forefathers committed in the last century and relieve them, especially the present generation, of the burden of the collective guilt and shame of those terrible deeds perpetrated by the Nazis.

SD GOH, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Those Germans are very smart and I think they deserve
another chance because you can not keep a bird with beautiful feathers deprived of liberty for ever.

Joe Thomas, New jersey, USA

It;s a good thing the USA got Einstein then von Braun. Germany
lost a lot of brainpower, to the benefit of the US. What if Hitler or
Stalin had both of those men. The USSR would have probably
taken the rest of Europe. Be thankful it was Amenica that got
those men, it could have been much worse.

ralph herrera, Rosenberg, USA/TEXAS

There is no doubt that Jerry is a clever fellow, and a fine workman in producing high quality goods. The BOG standard of olden days meant that something was produced to high British or German levels, the best in the world in fact. A shame our stuff has gone down the pan, but lets not hold grudges forever, we gave Jerry a damn good thrashing once or twice and he got up and recovered, lets wish him well in this ambitious venture, perhaps something useful for mankind may develop out of it, a colony on the moon perhaps?.

Piggy Kruger, bridgwater, UK

What have to do what the Nazis did in WWII with a space program of Germany nowadays? I Don't know why everything that Germany do have to be linked to the Nazi period. Is in every NASA aerospatial project reminded that USA atomicr bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Gabriel, Marbella, Spain

"The key scientist involved in the A2 project was Wernher von Braun. After the war, he helped the US to build missiles capable of hitting the Soviet Union" A2? V2? A4? V4?

waldo, campbellville,

Regarding point the first Jessica, I always thought that acronyms which are pronounced as words such as Uefa, and Nato, and indeed Nasa, should only have the first letter capitalised otherwise it would indicate that the individual letters should be spelt out.

Paul, Edinburgh,

1. NASA and ESA are both acronyms. Why did you properly capitalize ESA, but not NASA?

2. Thanks for reminding us that the V2 was produced by slave labour. Some aspects of history must not be forgotten.

Jessica Tufts, Milton Keynes,

Fantastic news. This is a better way to expend $$ than for military or exessive social services. A German rocket programme is a fitting tribute to Wernher von Braun who has been transformed into a bogey man despite his role in the developement of rocket science. The west was willing to use him when it was in their interest then cast aspersions about his life and times towards the end of his life. People should build a bridge and move on as has German science.

S Singer, perth, wa