hahahah no. I hope to write a novel 1/2 as good as Thomas Pynchon one day...
It is all about the V-2 rockets and the ensuing Operation Paperclip which sought Nazi scientists to be brought to the United States under the auspice of...well, I'm not quite sure actually.
The Americans put these Nazi officials in high ranking positions such as NASA.
Wernher Von Braun, for example, worked at Peenemunde, helping to develop and design the V-2 rocket during WW2. Let's just say these were not the best of working conditions.
Following the implementation of Operation Paperclip Braun worked for the U.S. army on an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) program. He also developed the rockets that launched the United States' first space satellite Explorer 1. He served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V super heavy-lift launch vehicle that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon. In 1975, Wernher von Braun received the National Medal of Science. He advocated a human mission to Mars.
RE: The Original Guided Missile - The German V-2 Rocket