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Song Parodies -> "Britain’s Secret Manned V-2"

Original Song Title:

"I Put a Spell on You"

 (MP3)
Original Performer:

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Parody Song Title:

"Britain’s Secret Manned V-2"

Parody Written by:

Robert D. Arndt Jr.

The Lyrics

After Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945, Britain, the United States, and U.S.S.R. captured a huge amount of German war documents and scientists involved with the V-2 project which bombarded London from late 1944 to early 1945 and Antwerp in 1945. Information on the V-2 missile was put to good use by the victorious US and Soviet Union for further development towards military missiles and early spaceflight. Britain, however, lacked the resources to match the two postwar superpowers as Britain won the war, but had to rebuild and pay back immense war debts to the United States. However, a British independent proposal put forward just one year after the war, if it had been properly developed, could have altered the history of space exploration as we know it. A two-man study group (R.A. Smith and H. E. Ross) of the British Interplanetary Society submitted a private design for an adapted German V-2 rocket to the Ministry of Supply on December 23, 1946. The civilian adaption consisted of a new pressurized cabin in the nose of the rocket, in place of the usual explosive 1,000 kg amatol warhead, which would enable a man to be launched as a passenger on the flight. The cabin was to be detachable, allowing the astronaut to experience several minutes of weightlessness, before it parachuted back to Earth. Due to lack of funding, however, the proposal was not adopted as fate would have it. Britain was still in the reconstruction phase in 1946 from all the war damage caused during the previous years by the Luftwaffe and V-Weapons campaign. The concept, however, is almost identical to that used by NASA in 1961, when US Astronauts Alan Sheppard and Gus Grissom were sent on sub-orbital flights with a Redstone rocket (ironically derived from the V-2), going through several minutes of weightlessness. Had the British succeeded in their manned V-2 and had both the resources and Ministry funding, the first moon rocket might have been named Brittania or Victoria and the Union Flag might have been planted on the moon instead of the Stars & Stripes.
Britain’s secret manned V-2
private design

British studied the captured V-2
BIS tryin’
Aimed at space flyin’

British design for leaving planet
V-2s layin’ around
Proposed cabin in warhead
Into space, detach, then come back down

Britain’s secret manned V-2
private design
Funding declined

Manned V-2
Manned V-2
Manned V-2
Needed funding somehow
MoS didn’t care
Reconstruction emergency
British simply lost out

Supply Ministry
Britain’s secret manned V-2
private design
(Could have made British history)
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/picturess/manned.jpg

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WCJ - August 17, 2011 - Report this comment
Makes me wonder how they could control a parachuting capsule that is falling back to Earth. Great parody Rob, out of this world! 5's! :-)
Patrick - August 17, 2011 - Report this comment
The Germans left a lot of V2 rockets around at the end of the war. Didn't the US use them for early experiments, too? That would have been exciting to have a British astronaut 10 years or more ahead of the US and Russia. Wonder how we would have reacted to that. Remember when the US was startled and a bit ashamed to be preceded into space by Sputnik.
Rob Arndt - August 17, 2011 - Report this comment
The German missile impact led to interceptor rockets, ICBMs, submarine missiles, and a man on the moon by '69!!! I always reject then myth that the USA got the best German rocket scientists. The Soviets got a lot of German tech the US did not but it was the way that the Soviets treated their captured rocket scientists and the decisions of postwar Soviet leaders that led to both early victories against the US in the space race (Sputnik, first dog, man, and woman in space, first space walk, etc...) and losses when it came to the moon. Most Americans are ignorant of the Soviet moon mission with their N-1 rockets and LK lunar lander: http://www.thespacereview.com/archive/648a.jpg http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/spacecraft/russia/n1-1.jpg http://www.geocities.ws/danimir.geo/lk03.jpg http://www.astronautix.com/graphics/k/krechet2.jpg

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