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by coliveira 1865 days ago
It's even more impressive that the USSR did all that without using German scientists.
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To be more precise, without using German scientists to the full capacity.

This multi-channel telemetry was enabler; Soviets followed the same approach as SpaceX is doing: lot of launches, lots of explosions and learning something every time.

It was telemetry from the German team that allowed this approach to happen.

In a sense, printf-style debugging was used before it became prevalent in computers.