04-01-2017, 04:25 PM
I doubt that there was any rocket technology the US possessed that the Soviets didn't circa 1963. They were, after all, the first ones to put a man into orbit. Many of America's early rocket launches were exploding or crashing. The Soviets had captured lots of German scientists and engineers as well at the end of WWII. Soviet industry just wasn't as productive and innovative as the US, which is the main reason the Americans eventually pulled ahead of them.
You may have heard of the Ghost Rocket sightings in Scandinavia in 1947, which were thought at the time to be Soviet rocket tests using German technology (though they may have been something else instead):
http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron1.htm
You may have heard of the Ghost Rocket sightings in Scandinavia in 1947, which were thought at the time to be Soviet rocket tests using German technology (though they may have been something else instead):
http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron1.htm