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Wernher von Braun became the first director of the MSFC. The MSFC's development team was formed by American engineers from the Redstone Arsenal and 118 German migrants who came from Peenemünde through Operation Paperclip. [43] Von Braun worked with Operation Paperclip to get scientists from his team to the United States.
A group of 104 rocket scientists at Fort Bliss, Texas. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
Wernher von Braun, a German rocket scientist with robotic prosthetic limbs. Leslie Groves, a no-nonsense US Army general and director of the Manhattan Projects. He ordered the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings and was the reason for Manhattan Projects' continuation. He would later conspire with Westmoreland and Johnson.
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.
Oppenheimer told Groves on October 8 that the Manhattan Project needed a dedicated weapons development laboratory. Groves agreed, and after a second meeting with Oppenheimer on a train on October 15, decided that Oppenheimer was the man he needed to head what became the Los Alamos Laboratory , despite Oppenheimer's lack of a Nobel Prize or ...
Oppenheimer reassembles the Manhattan Project scientists, plus computer scientist John von Neumann and rocket engineer Wernher von Braun, to either shield Earth from the explosion, or evacuate as many people as possible to Mars. To avoid mass panic, this impending catastrophe is kept secret, even from the US government.
In the Author's Preface to Project Mars: A Technical Tale, written by von Braun in 1950 in Fort Bliss, he states that the purpose of the book is to "stimulate interest in space travel". [7] He said that all the book's scientific data is derived from "the results of careful computations or tested scientific observations", which includes the ...
In a letter to Frank Malina, von Kármán ranked Parsons first in a list of figures he viewed as most important to modern rocketry and the foundation of the American space program. [199] According to Richard Metzger, Wernher von Braun—who was nicknamed "The Father of Rocket Science"—once argued that Parsons was more worthy of this moniker ...