Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (US: /ˈvɜːrnər vɒn ˈbraʊn/ VUR-nər von BROWN, German: [ˈvɛʁnheːɐ̯ fɔn ˈbʁaʊn]; 23 March 1912 – 16 June 1977)...
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brother of Sigismund and Wernher von Braun. Von Braun was born in Greifswald, Pomerania, to Magnus Freiherr von Braun and Emmy von Quistorp. His politician...
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Huntsville, Alabama, to Wernher von Braun and Maria Luise Von Quistorp. Von Braun was the middle child out of the three children of Wernher and Maria. She had...
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Rotating wheel space station (redirect from Von Braun wheel)
Originally proposed by Herman Potočnik in 1929, and popularized by Wernher von Braun in 1952. This type of station rotates about its axis, creating an...
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pioneering rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. Magnus von Braun was born at his family's manor of Neucken, an estate the von Brauns had owned since 1803, near...
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Project Mars: A Technical Tale (category Wernher von Braun)
novel written by German-American rocket physicist Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) in 1949. Von Braun’s original title for the work was Marsprojekt. Henry...
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The Mars Project (category Wernher von Braun)
German-American) rocket physicist, astronautics engineer and space architect Wernher von Braun. It was translated from the original German by Henry J. White and...
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German diplomat, Wernher's brother Wernher von Braun (1912–1977), influential aerospace engineer von Braun, lunar crater The VonBraun, a fictional faster-than-light...
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That Was the Year That Was (redirect from Wernher Von Braun (Tom Lehrer song))
Hubert?" – 2:13 "New Math" – 4:28 "Alma" – 5:27 "Who's Next?" – 2:00 "Wernher von Braun" – 1:46 "The Vatican Rag" – 2:14 Side one "National Brotherhood Week"...
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von Braun, named after the rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun, is a lunar impact crater located near the northwestern limb of the Moon. It lies along the...
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Man Will Conquer Space Soon! (category Wernher von Braun)
title of a series of 1950s magazine articles in Collier's detailing Wernher von Braun's plans for human spaceflight. Edited by Cornelius Ryan, the individual...
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The von Braun ferry rocket was a concept design for a shuttle spacecraft that was developed by Wernher von Braun in a seminal series of early-1950s Collier's...
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Operation Paperclip (category Wernher von Braun)
and industrial processes. Recruits included such notable figures as Wernher von Braun, a leading rocket-technology scientist. Those recruited were instrumental...
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first engineering analysis of a crewed mission to Mars was made by Wernher von Braun in 1948. It was originally published as Das Marsprojekt in West Germany...
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enthusiasts who joined the Society, which included persons such as Wernher von Braun, Rolf Engel, Rudolf Nebel or Paul Ehmayr. Oberth lacked the opportunities...
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von Braun (senior). His brothers were rocket scientists Wernher von Braun and Magnus von Braun, and he was the father of politician Carola von Braun and...
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Himmler’s Kommandostelle near Salzburg. On 22 April he caught up with Wernher von Braun and Walter Dornberger, both of whom were reported to have made contact...
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Bruder Wernher (fl. 1225–1250), poet Wernher von Braun (1912–1977), rocketry pioneer in Nazi Germany and subsequently the United States Wernher Schodeler...
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model – the de Laval nozzle – and his autographed picture of Dr. Wernher von Braun. Homer makes an urgent phone call home to his mother Elsie, who implores...
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Wernher von Braun to achieve flight beyond the atmosphere. World War II inspired Wernher von Braun to create the V1 and V2 rockets...
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V-2 rocket (category Wernher von Braun)
military use of long-range rockets began when the graduate studies of Wernher von Braun were noticed by the German Army. A series of prototypes culminated...
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The von Braun Interceptor was a VTOL rocket-powered interceptor designed by Wernher von Braun. This aircraft would have used the technology Von Braun had...
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Saturn V (category Wernher von Braun)
family of rockets, the Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; the lead...
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Aggregat (category Wernher von Braun)
rocket design in the Aggregat series. It was designed in 1933 by Wernher von Braun at the German Army research program at Kummersdorf headed by Colonel...
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Michael Collins, Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton, rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, NASA Administrator Thomas Paine, NASA flight director Gene Kranz...
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military technologies. In August 1945, 127 missile specialists led by Wernher von Braun signed work contracts with the United States Army Ordnance Corps.[citation...
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Walter Haeussermann, Wernher von Braun and Ernst Stuhlinger William Hayward Pickering, James Van Allen, and Wernher von Braun display a full-scale model...
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with the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the Germans Hermann Oberth, Wernher von Braun and the American Robert H. Goddard. He was born on 8 November 1881...
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List of Germans relocated to the US via the Operation Paperclip (category Wernher von Braun)
Bergeler Rudi Berndt, expert in parachute development Magnus von Braun Wernher von Braun Ernst Czerlinsky Theodor Buchhold [de] Walter Burose Adolf Busemann...
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become convinced of its merits, but their conversion was announced by Wernher von Braun at a briefing on June 7, 1962. But even after NASA reached internal...
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