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 '.

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.

In mid-1935 Wernher von Braun initiated a fuel pump project at the southwest German firm Klein, Schanzlin & Becker that was experienced in building large fire-fighting pumps .< ref name = Neufeld >

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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# 69r: Herr Wernher von Teufen ( fl.

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 ).

Wernher von Braun, a young engineering prodigy, was recruited by Becker and Dornberger to join their secret army program at Kummersdorf-West in 1932.

He was helped in this experiment by an 18 year old student Wernher von Braun, who would later become a giant in both German and American rocket engineering from the 1940s onward, culminating with the gigantic Saturn V rockets that made it possible for men to land on the Moon in 1969 and in several following years.

Oberth eventually came to work for his former student, Wernher von Braun, who was developing space rockets for NASA in Huntsville, Alabama.

When the Marshall Space Flight Center began official operations in July 1960, Wernher von Braun was the Director and Eberhard Rees was his Deputy for Research and Development.

) " Stanford torus " refers only to this particular version of the design, as the concept of a ring-shaped rotating space station was previously proposed by Wernher von Braun and Herman Potočnik.

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.

( Its head Wernher von Braun was acquired by the US ).

It was established at Redstone Arsenal on February 1, 1956 and commanded by Major General John B. Medaris with Doctor Wernher von Braun.

Kahn was reportedly one of the models for Dr. Strangelove from the eponymous film by Stanley Kubrick, released in 1964 ( other prominent influences were John von Neumann, Edward Teller, Robert McNamara, and Wernher von Braun ).

Remarkably, Hendrik Wade Bode, the man who helped develop automatic radar-controlled artillery that brought down the German V-1 flying bombs over London during World War II, was actually serving in the same committee and sitting at the same table as Wernher von Braun who was head of the team which developed the V-2, the other weapon that terrorized London.

A product of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency ( ABMA ) at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama under the leadership of Wernher von Braun, Redstone was designed as a surface-to-surface missile for the U. S. Army.

Stennis ( left ) visited the Marshall Space Flight Center in mid-November 1967, where he was greeted at the Redstone Airfield by Center Director Dr. Wernher von Braun.

Late in 1936 Erich Warsitz was seconded by the RLM to Wernher von Braun and Ernst Heinkel, because he had been recognized as one of the most experienced test-pilots of the time, and because he also had an extraordinary fund of technical knowledge.

Late in 1936 Erich Warsitz was seconded by the RLM to Wernher von Braun and Ernst Heinkel, because he had been recognized as one of the most experienced test-pilots of the time, and because he also had an extraordinary fund of technical knowledge.