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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.
It was designed in 1933 by Wernher von Braun at the German Army research program at Kummersdorf headed by Colonel Dr Walter Dornberger. The A1 was the grandfather of most modern rockets. The rocket was 1.4 metres (4 ft 7 in) long, 30.5 centimetres (12 in) in diameter, and had a takeoff weight of 150 kilograms (330 lb).
The V2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 2'), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range [4] guided ballistic missile.The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance weapon" and assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings of German ...
Dr. Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) was one of the most important rocket developers and champions of space exploration in the twentieth century. As a youth he became enamored with the ...
Magnus von Braun Wernher von Braun Ernst Czerlinsky Theodor Buchhold Walter Burose [12] Adolf Busemann GN Constan [13] Werner Dahm [14] Konrad Dannenberg [3] Kurt H. Debus Gerd De Beek [15] Walter Dornberger – head of rocket programme Gerhard Drawe [16] Friedrich Duerr [17] Ernst R. G. Eckert Rudolph Edse [18] Otto Eisenhardt [19] Krafft ...
Wernher von Braun, portrayed by Colm Feore (season 1), an aerospace engineer for NASA and former engineer for the Waffen-SS. He served as a mentor to Margo Madison, but is removed from NASA after it is revealed to the public that he knew about the treatment of slave labourers which built the V-2 rocket during the Second World War.
Project Mars: A Technical Tale is the English translation of an unpublished German-language science fiction novel written by German-American rocket physicist Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) in 1949. Von Braun’s original title for the work was Marsprojekt. Henry J. White (1892–1962) translated it into English. In 2006, almost 30 years after ...
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.