Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (German: [ˌvɛʁnheːɐ̯ fɔn ˈbʁaʊ̯n]; US: /ˌvɜːrnər vɒn ˈbraʊn/ VUR-nər von BROWN; 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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Rotating wheel space station (redirect from Von Braun wheel)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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occupation of space was the inevitable path for our species. In 1952 Wernher von Braun published his own inhabited space station concept in a series of magazine...
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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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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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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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I Aim at the Stars (redirect from Wernher von Braun (film))
German-American biographical film which tells the story of the life of Wernher von Braun. The film covers his life from his early days in Germany, through...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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