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  2. Wernher von Braun - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Operation Paperclip - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. John Houbolt - Wikipedia

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    — Wernher von Braun to Houbolt upon the successful landing of Apollo 11, a remark captured on a NASA film taken at Mission Control in Houston. If Houbolt had not pushed the LOR concept—risking his NASA career and professional reputation—it would have been unlikely that the first successful lunar landing and return mission could have been ...

  5. Saturn V - Wikipedia

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    On Apollo 11, TLI came at 2 hours and 44 minutes after launch. ... For lunar missions before Apollo 13, ... Wernher von Braun's earlier (1964) plans employed a "wet ...

  6. Apollo program - Wikipedia

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    Before the Apollo program began, Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket engineers had started work on plans for very large launch vehicles, the Saturn series, and the even larger Nova series. In the midst of these plans, von Braun was transferred from the Army to NASA and was made Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center.

  7. National Space Institute - Wikipedia

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    The National Space Institute was a space advocacy group, the first of its kind, established by Wernher von Braun to help maintain the public's support for the United States space program. It has since merged, in 1987, with the L5 Society founded by fans of the Space Colonization and Industrialization work of Gerard K. O'Neill , to become the ...

  8. First Men to the Moon - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. I Aim at the Stars - Wikipedia

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    I Aim at the Stars is a 1960 West 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 Peenemünde, until his work with the U.S. Army, NASA, and the American space program.