wocomoDOCS | OTRAG - When German rocket scientists started the first private space company (Documentary, 2018) @wocomodocs | Uploaded August 2020 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
SpaceX and Elon Musk weren’t the first! About the meteoric rise and sudden fall of the first-ever private space company OTRAG (Orbital Transport und Raketen AG): foolhardy, ingenious and »Made in Germany«. Like a political thriller, FLY ROCKET FLY tells of the charismatic visionary and entrepreneur Lutz Thilo Kayser who relocates to General Mobutus’ Congolese jungle with other passionate engineers in order to conquer space. When the inventors almost topple the world order with their rocket launch system they come into the unrelenting firing line of super powers until their downfall seems certain. Featuring unique and never seen before archive footage and enigmatic contemporary witnesses.
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Original title: Fly Rocket Fly
A film by Oliver Schwehm
© 2018, Licensed by Magnetfilm
SpaceX and Elon Musk weren’t the first! About the meteoric rise and sudden fall of the first-ever private space company OTRAG (Orbital Transport und Raketen AG): foolhardy, ingenious and »Made in Germany«. Like a political thriller, FLY ROCKET FLY tells of the charismatic visionary and entrepreneur Lutz Thilo Kayser who relocates to General Mobutus’ Congolese jungle with other passionate engineers in order to conquer space. When the inventors almost topple the world order with their rocket launch system they come into the unrelenting firing line of super powers until their downfall seems certain. Featuring unique and never seen before archive footage and enigmatic contemporary witnesses.
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Original title: Fly Rocket Fly
A film by Oliver Schwehm
© 2018, Licensed by Magnetfilm
