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The Mars Project (German: Das Marsprojekt) is a 1952 non-fiction scientific book by the German (later German-American) rocket physicist, astronautics engineer and space architect Wernher von Braun. It was translated from the original German by Henry J. White and first published in English by the University of Illinois Press in 1953.
Project Mars: A Technical Tale is a science 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 J. White (1892–1962) translated the book into English and it was published later by Apogee Books (Canada) in 2006 as Project Mars: A ...
Wernher von Braun was born on 23 March 1912, in the small town of Wirsitz in the Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, then German Empire and now Poland. [14]His father, Magnus Freiherr von Braun (1878–1972), was a civil servant and conservative politician; he served as Minister of Agriculture in the federal government during the Weimar Republic.
"Man Will Conquer Space Soon!" was the 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 articles were authored by such space notables of the time as Willy Ley , Fred Lawrence Whipple , Dr. Joseph Kaplan , Dr. Heinz Haber , and von Braun.
[2] [3] [4] His works later inspired Wernher von Braun and leading Soviet rocket engineers Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko, who contributed to the success of the Soviet space program. Tsiolkovsky spent most of his life in a log house on the outskirts of Kaluga, about 200 km (120 mi) southwest of Moscow.
First Men to the Moon is a novella [1] by rocketry expert Wernher von Braun, [2] published in 1960. [3] [4] The book was designed and illustrated by Fred Freeman.[5] [6] Portions of the novella had previously been serialized in the American syndicated Sunday magazine supplement, This Week between 1958 and 1959.
Dr. Wernher von Braun and Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger " Mars and Beyond " is an episode of Disneyland which aired on December 4, 1957. [ 1 ] It was directed by Ward Kimball and narrated by Paul Frees .
The question of how humans would get to Mars was addressed in several ways: when not travelling there via spaceship as in the 1911 novel To Mars via the Moon: An Astronomical Story by Mark Wicks, [24] they might use a flying carpet as in the 1905 novel Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation by Edwin Lester Arnold, [14] [18] [20] a balloon as in A Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Paul ...