Wernher von Braun
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Is this the end for human space flight?...pledge. The key line was not the crazy bit about landing a man on the moon, it was the hubristic promise to do so by 1970. If Wernher Von Braun had insisted the moon was unreachable before 1975, they probably would never have gone. Why? In this article: NASA, John F. Kennedy, Mars, Julie Payette, US, Democracy, International Space Station, and Buzz Lightyear |
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Boing Boing | 5 days ago
Jacques Vallee: Waterboarding's curious corollaries
...the ludicrous "confession" that his network planned to invade Corsica. In reality they were looking for heavy water and for Werner von Braun's rocket base. As a child of World War Two who remembers its limitless horrors, my revulsion at...
In this article: Jacques Vallee, Venture capital, Magonia, Saddam Hussein, U.S., Democracy, and Derivative
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TIME | November 12, 2009
The 50 Best Inventions of 2009
...the next generation of America's rockets, they thus decided to go back to the future way back. The Saturn V was the brainchild of Wernher von Braun, the German scientist whose bright genius gave the U.S. its finest line of rockets and whose...
In this article: NASA, Saturn, Mars, Robert Goddard, U.S., Apollo, Columbia, and Space Shuttle
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Popular Science | November 04, 2009
Remembering a Former Caltech Rocket Scientist and the Founder of China's Space Program
The United States even sent Xuesen to Germany to help interrogate Nazi scientists, including famed rocket scientist Wernher von Braun who went on to help found the U.S. space program. Colleagues and scientific peers thought Xuesen a...
In this article: Qian Xuesen, Caltech, China, United States, Dan Kimball, World War II, MIT, and Los Angeles Times
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Centre Daily Times | November 01, 2009
Obituaries in the news
...to Europe on a mission to examine captured rocket technology from Nazi Germany. He studied the German V-2 rocket and interviewed its chief designer, Wernher von Braun, who would go on to play a key role in the American manned space program.
In this article: Iowa, Park Chung-hee, Pyongyang, China, Big Ten, Rose Bowl, Seoul, and United States
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L.A. Times - Science | November 01, 2009
Qian Xuesen dies at 98; rocket scientist helped establish Jet Propulsion Laboratory
...military during and after World War II. Sent to Germany to interrogate Nazi scientists, Qian interviewed rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. As the trade magazine Aviation Week put it in 2007, upon naming Qian its person of the year, "No...
In this article: Tsien Hsue-shen, Caltech, China, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Silkworm, Theodore von Karman, United States, and Nationalist
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USATODAY.com | October 31, 2009
Father of China's space tech program dies at 98
...captured rocket technology from Nazi Germany. He studied the German V-2 rocket and interviewed its chief designer, Wernher von Braun, who would go on to play a key role in the American manned space program. After the war, Qian...
In this article: Tsien Hsue-shen, China, United States, Beijing, Chiang Kai-shek, Washington, All rights reserved, Nationalist, World War II, and U.S. Communist Party
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Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977), a German rocket physicist and astronautics engineer, became one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States. Wernher von Braun is sometimes said to be the preeminent rocket engineer of the 20th century.
In his 20s and early 30s, von Braun was the central figure in Germany's pre-war rocket development program, responsible for the design and realization of the deadly V-2 combat rocket during World War II. After the war, he and some of his rocket team were taken to the United States as part of the then-secret Operation Overcast. In 1955, ten years after entering the country, von Braun became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Von Braun worked on the American intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program before joining NASA, where he served as director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon. He is generally regarded as the father of the United States space program, both for his technical and organizational skills, and for his public relations efforts on behalf of space flight. He received the 1975 National Medal of Science.
- Birth Date:
- March 23, 1912
- Birthplace:
- Wirsitz, German Empire
- Death Date:
- June 16, 1977
- Place of Death:
- Alexandria, Virginia, USA
- Cause of Death:
- Cancer
- Nationality:
- German, American
- Occupation:
- German rocket engineer and designer.
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