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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. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field

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    Wernher von Braun: Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket. Tsiolkovsky created the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation. Oberth was the first, who presented mathematically analyzed concepts and designs of space ships. [152] Braun´s V2 rocket was the first man made object in space. [153] He led the Apollo program. Thermodynamics: Sadi Carnot ...

  4. The Mars Project - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Nazi rocket scientists, including Wernher von Braun ... - AOL

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    Wernher von Braun was head of the V-2 rocket development team. The rocket was used in the twilight hours of World War II. The rocket wizard was quoted in a 1952 Press clipping that if Germany had ...

  6. Project Mars: A Technical Tale - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. List of coupled cousins - Wikipedia

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    Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) and his first cousin, Maria Luise von Quistorp [8] Charles Bulfinch (1763–1844), American architect, and his first cousin, Hannah Apthorp [9] C. George Cayley (1831–1895), British cricketer, and his first cousin, Catherine Louisa Worsley; Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer and his first cousin, Clodia

  8. List of Nova episodes - Wikipedia

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    Wernher Von Braun and others recount the development of the V-2 Rocket, the first long-range, guided ballistic missile. ... from biology laboratories, ...

  9. List of crewed Mars mission plans - Wikipedia

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    The first engineering analysis of a crewed mission to Mars was made by Wernher von Braun in 1948. [9] It was originally published as Das Marsprojekt in West Germany in 1952, and as The Mars Project in English in the United States in 1953. Von Braun's Mars "flotilla" included ten 4,000-ton ships with 70 crew members. [10] The expected launch ...