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    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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    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)
    fiction novel by German-American rocket physicist, Wernher von Braun (1912–1977). It was written by von Braun in German in 1949 and entitled Marsprojekt. Henry...
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    idea was expanded 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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  • 1932–1933, father of the three von Braun brothers Sigismund von Braun (1911–1998), German diplomat, Wernher's brother Wernher von Braun (1912–1977), influential...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    centre run by Wernher von Braun, who later worked on the American space programme(10 June 2001 Germans at last learn truth about von Braun's 'space research'...
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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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    space required the development of larger ballistic missiles such as Wernher von Braun's Aggregat-4 (A-4), which became known as the Vergeltungswaffe 2 (V-2)...
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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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    exhibitions. It is named in honor of Wernher von Braun, the German-American rocket scientist. After von Braun’s work for Nazi Germany in World War II...
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    also harness their expertise in order to develop a space program. Wernher von Braun, technical director at the US Army's Ballistic Missile Agency would...
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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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    Saturn (rocket family) (category Wernher von Braun)
    by a team of former German rocket engineers and scientists led by Wernher von Braun to launch heavy payloads to Earth orbit and beyond. The Saturn family...
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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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    father of modern rocketry and astronautics. His works later inspired Wernher von Braun and leading Soviet rocket engineers Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko...
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    1933, Riedel refused to join Wernher von Braun in the army's rocket programme and worked for Siemens. He accepted von Braun's offer only in August 1937 after...
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    eventually became important rocket technology pioneers, including Wernher von Braun. Von Braun served as head of the army research station that designed the...
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    House of Cards (2016–2017), Declan Gallard on 21 Thunder (2017), Wernher von Braun in For All Mankind (2019), and Sir Reginald Hargreeves on The Umbrella...
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    United States in 1953 as part of Operation Paperclip, he was part of Wernher von Braun's team at the United States Army, and later, NASA. He is credited with...
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