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Encyclopedia: Wernher von Braun

Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr^[1] von Braun (March 23 1912 – June 16 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany and the United States. The German scientist, who led Nazi Germany's rocket development program (V-2) before and during World War II, entered the United States at the end of the war through the then-secret Operation Paperclip. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen and worked on the American 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 United States to the Moon[1]. He is generally regarded as the father of the United States space program. Wernher von Braun recieved the National Medal of Science in 1975.

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Army Ballistic Missile Agency

ABMA was headed by Doctor Wernher von Braun. The ABMA and the Jupiter-C After the US Naval Research... was ordered to stop work on satellites and focus, instead, on intermediate missiles. Wernher von Braun...

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Austin Willis

title) Wernher von Braun (1960) ... as John B. Medaris ... aka I Aim at the Stars (1960) (USA... Germany) ... aka Wernher von Braun: Ich greife nach den Sternen (1960) (West Germany) Crack in the...

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Timeline of rocket and missile technology

staging. 1926 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid fuel rocket. 1942 - Wernher von Braun and Walter... publishes The Conquest of Space 1952 - Wernher von Braun discusses the technical details of a manned... articles by Ley and von Braun, illustrated by Chesley Bonestell. 1957 - Launch of the first ICBM, the...

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1912 in science

Carrel Births March 23 - Wernher von Braun, physicist and engineer († 1977) April 19 - Glenn T... of air increases with altitude, indicating the existence of cosmic radiation. Max von Laue suggests...

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Französisches Gymnasium Berlin

school) have become well-known later on, among them engineers Ernst Werner Siemens and Wernher von Braun, songwriter Reinhard Mey and social-democrat Gesine Schwan. The school today The school has moved...

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German missiles of WW2

site People Wernher von Braun Walter Dornberger List of missiles surface-to-surface missiles Both...

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Jack Parsons

-capable rocket fuels and the invention of JATO units for aircraft. He is less well known than Wernher von Braun or Theodore von Kármán in the rocket program and the origins of JPL. Nonetheless, von Braun remarked that Parsons, and not he, should be regarded as the father of the American space program...

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Klaus Riedel

VfR disbanded in 1933, Riedel was invited by Wernher von Braun to join him in the army's rocket...

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National Space Institute

The National Space Society was a space advocacy group established by Wernher von Braun in 1974. In its earliest stages it was known as the National Space Association , and it changed its name to... it to Space Frontier Society . Von Braun was the first president, but quickly became chairman with...

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National Space Society

, founded by Wernher von Braun; and the L5 Society, based on the concepts of Gerard K. O'Neill. The society... Collins, Maria von Braun, Bob Hope, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, John Glenn, Tom Hanks, Majel Barrett...

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