The design, development and construction of the center was conducted by Kurt H. Debus, a member of Dr. Wernher von Braun's original V-2 rocket engineering team.

The development of the world's first practical design for an ICBM, A9 / 10, intended for use in bombing New York and other American cities, was undertaken in Nazi Germany by the team of Wernher von Braun under Projekt Amerika.

In 1954, JPL teamed up with Wernher von Braun ’ s rocketeers at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency ’ s Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, to propose orbiting a satellite during the International Geophysical Year.

The concept of a lunar rover predated Apollo, with a 1952 – 1954 series in Collier's Weekly magazine by Wernher von Braun and others, " Man Will Conquer Space Soon!

The site had been suggested by Wernher von Braun's mother as ' just the place for you and your friends '.

Wernher von Braun was the HVP technical director ( Dr Walter Thiel was deputy director ) and there were nine major departments:

The chemist Magnus von Braun, the youngest brother of Wernher von Braun, was employed in the attempted development at Peenemünde of anti-aircraft rockets.

SDI may have been first dubbed " Star Wars " by opponent Dr. Carol Rosin, a consultant and former spokeswoman for Wernher von Braun.

Rocket scientist and space architect Wernher von Braun, writer Arthur C. Clarke, and other early advocates expected until the 1960s that a space station would be an important early step in space exploration.

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In the late 1920s, a young Wernher von Braun acquired a copy of Hermann Oberth's book, Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen ( The Rocket into Interplanetary Space ).

Following successes at Kummersdorf with the first two Aggregate series rockets, Wernher von Braun and Walter Riedel began thinking of a much larger rocket in the summer of 1936, based on a projected 25-metric-ton-thrust engine.

Major-General Rossmann, the Army Weapons Office department chief, recommended stationing observers in the target area – c. May / June, Walter Dornberger and Wernher von Braun set up a camp at the centre of the Poland target zone.

* March 22 – Wernher von Braun publishes the first in his series of articles titled Man Will Conquer Space Soon !, including ideas for manned flights to Mars and the Moon.

* March 23 – Wernher von Braun, German-born American physicist and engineer ( d. 1977 )

** Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and 120 members of his team surrender to U. S. forces ( later going on to help to start the U. S. space program ).

** Wernher von Braun retires from NASA, frustrated by the agency's unwillingness to pursue a manned trans-orbital space program.

The first ballistic missile was the A-4, commonly known as the V-2 rocket, developed by Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s under direction of Wernher von Braun.

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The German V-2 rocket used a system of primitive multiplexed radio signals called " Messina " to report four rocket parameters, but it was so unreliable that Wernher von Braun once claimed it was more useful to watch the rocket through binoculars.

In 1951, in Collier's weekly, Wernher von Braun published his design for a wheel-shaped space station.

A member of the Redstone rocket family, Jupiter-C was designed by the U. S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency ( ABMA ), under the direction of Wernher von Braun.

Through this system, designed by Wernher von Braun in 1956 for his proposed Project Orbiter, the Jupiter-C obviated the need for a guidance system in the upper stages.

" Hanks is a member of the National Space Society, serving on the Board of Governors of the nonprofit educational space advocacy organization founded by Dr. Wernher Von Braun.

This multi-stage system, designed by Wernher von Braun in 1956 for his proposed Project Orbiter, obviated the need for a guidance system in the upper stages, proving to be the simplest and most immediate method for putting a payload into orbit ; but as it had no upper-stage guidance, it could not inject the payload into a precise orbit.

This paper was highly influential on Hermann Oberth and Wernher Von Braun, later key players in spaceflight.

After several failed Vanguard launches, Wernher von Braun and his team convinced President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use one of their US Army missiles for the Explorer program ( there then being no inhibition about using military rockets to get into space ).

* April 9 – Julius Wernher, German-born British businessman and art collector ( d. 1912 )

* June 16 – Wernher von Braun ( b. 1912 ), German-born American physicist and engineer.

* Wernher von Braun ( 1912 – 1977 ), rocket scientist

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Sir Julius Charles Wernher, 1st Baronet ( 9 April 1850 – 21 May 1912 ) was a German-born Randlord and art collector who became part of the English establishment.

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* March 23 – Wernher von Braun ( died 1977 ), German-born physicist and engineer.

Montford, 1916 – 1920 ) to Alfred Beit and Julius Wernher who were major benefactors to the school.

In 1966 he married Alexandra Anastasia " Sacha " Phillips ( b. 27 February 1946 ), eldest daughter of Lt .- Col. Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips ( 1909 – 1980 ) and Georgina Wernher ( 1919 – 2011 ), elder daughter and co-heiress of Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Baronet, of Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire ).

His descendants include Field Marshal von Wrangel, granddaughter Luise Eleonore Wreech ( 1708 – 1784 ), a nephew-the military historian Kurd von Schöning and the rocket scientist, Wernher von Braun.

She is the youngest of five children of Lt .- Col. Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips ( 1909 – 1980 ) and his wife, Georgina Wernher ( 1919 – 2011 ).

Rosin, an educator, became the first woman to hold the executive position of Corporate Manager at Fairchild Industries from 1974 through 1977, where she met the late Dr. Wernher von Braun.

* Sir Julius Wernher, 1st Baronet, of Luton Hoo Park, in the Parish of Luton and County of Bedford ( 1905 ), extinct 1973

Professor von Braun ( the name taken from German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun ) was originally known as Leonard Nosferatu ( a tribute to F. W. Murnau's film Nosferatu ), but Caution is repeatedly told that Nosferatu no longer exists.

His works from the 1950s and ' 60s are regarded as classics of popular science and include The Conquest of Space 1949 ( with Chesley Bonestell ), The Conquest of the Moon ( with Wernher von Braun and Fred Whipple, 1953 ), and Beyond the Solar System ( 1964 ).

Dr. Wernher von Braun ( 1912-1977 ), founder of the National Space Institute, forerunner of the present-day National Space Society

He was the third civilian hired by Walter Dornberger for German research at Kummersdorf on November 1, 1932, ( after Wernher von Braun & Heinrich Grünow ), and in 1936, transferred to Dornberger's new rocket section.

Historically, some common Low German surnames were derived from ( clipped ) first names using the-ke ( n ) suffix ; for example, Ludwig > Lüdeke, Wilhelm > Wilke ( n ), Wernher > Werneke, and so on.

Hamlin was born in Pasadena, California, the son of Berniece ( née Robinson ), a socialite, and Chauncey Jerome Hamlin, Jr., an aeronautical engineer who once worked with scientist Wernher von Braun .< ref >

Since rocket scientist Hermann Oberth worked as an advisor on this movie ( he had originally intended to build a working rocket for use in the film ; time and technology kept this from happening ), it was popular among the rocket scientists in Wernher von Braun's circle at the Verein für Raumschiffahrt ( VfR ).

Colonel Briteis ( Donna Martell ), Major Bill Moore ( Ross Ford ), and Doctor Wernher ( Larry Johns ) are sent to orbit the Moon to survey landing sites for future lunar missions.

Beit moved into Tewin Water, near Welwyn, a large Regency house with Victorian additions and 7, 000 acres ( 28 km² ), and a few miles away Julius Wernher at last bought Luton Hoo, with 5, 218 acres ( 21. 1 km² ).

On 1 May 1308 King Albert became separated from his attendants when crossing the Reuss River at Windisch on his way home, and was at once attacked by John and his conspirators Walther von Eschenbach, Rudolf von Wert, Wernher von Wetter ( au ), Rudolf von Balm and Konrad von Tegerfelden.

Wernher von Braun, in his book World History of Aeronautics states: " Pedro Paulet was in Paris in those years ( 1900 ), experimenting with his tiny two-and-a-half kilogram motor, and achieved 100 kg of force.

The sisters ' maternal grandmother was born Countess Anastasia de Torby ( later Lady " Zia " Wernher ), younger morganatic daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mihailovich of Russia ( a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I ) by his wife Countess Sophie von Merenberg, morganatic daughter of Prince Nikolaus of Nassau ( himself brother of Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg ) by his wife Natalya Aleksandrovna, Pushkin's younger daughter.