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  Wernher von Braun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apparently von Braun had been under SD surveillance since October 1943 and a report on him and his colleagues Riedel and Grotrupp was being prepared.
In the meantime the press tended to dwell on von Braun's past as a member of the SS and the slave labour needed to build his V-2 rockets.
At time of the first moon-landing von Braun publicly expressed his optimism that the Saturn rocket would continue to be developed, advocating manned missions to Mars in the 1980s based on the Saturn V. Still with his rocket models, von Braun is pictured in his new office at NASA headquarters in 1970.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Werner_Von_Braun   (3077 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Werner-von-Braun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 –; June 16, 1977) was a German scientist and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States.
Finally, von Braun and the 126 Peenemünders were transferred to their new home at Fort Bliss, Texas, a large Army installation just north of El Paso, under the command of Major James P. Hamill.
Von Braun's childhood commitment to "turn the wheel of time," and his later dream to help mankind set foot on the moon became a reality on July 16, 1969 when a Marshall-developed Saturn V rocket launched the crew of Apollo 11.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Werner_von_Braun   (2921 words)

  
 Alabama Academy of Honor: Werner von Braun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Werner von Braun of Huntsville, one of the world's foremost space scientists, was born March 23, 1912 in Wirsitz, Germany, where his father was Secretary of Agriculture in the German government.
Following his graduation, Dr. von Braun took full-time employment with the Ordnance Department, and was technical director of the Army portion of the Rocket Center Peenemuende until 1945, and directed the efforts in developing the A-5 and the V-2 long range ballistic missiles.
von Braun was the recipient of numerous awards for his outstanding contributions to the American space effort in particular and to science in general.
www.archives.state.al.us /famous/academy/w_braun.html   (419 words)

  
 Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun (March 23, 1912 - June 16, 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States.
Von Braun allegedly was seen at Mittelbau-Dora where he witnessed dead bodies piled up.
The controversy about Von Brauns work during World War II was captured in a song by satirist Tom Lehrer, who described him as "A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience".
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/wernher_von_braun   (1929 words)

  
 Sputnik Biographies--Wernher von Braun (1912-1977)
Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) was one of the most important rocket developers and champions of space exploration during the period between the 1930s and the 1970s.
Von Braun is well known as the leader of what has been called the "rocket team," which developed the V-2 ballistic missile for the Nazis during World War II.
The brainchild of von Braun's rocket team operating at a secret laboratory at Peenemünde on the Baltic coast, the V-2 rocket was the immediate antecedent of those used in space exploration programs in the United States and the Soviet Union.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/sputnik/braun.html   (531 words)

  
 Wernher von Braun
Braun is most associated with the V2 rocket programme in World War Two and in later years Braun was also associated with the American space programme which culminated in the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969.
Braun helped to found the German Society for Space Travel and in 1932, just a year before Hitler’s appointment as German chancellor, von Braun was identified by Walter Dornberger as a man with ability in rocket technology.
In 1960, von Braun became head of the Marshall Space Flight Centre and it was here that he developed the Saturn rocket that ended with the Apollo series of Moon missions with Apollo 11 landing on the Moon in 1969.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk /wernher_von_braun.htm   (610 words)

  
 von Braun capture: 44th Infantry
Werner von Braun is prominent with his cast broken left arm.
His brother Magnus is the 3rd man to the left of Werner (without a hat) The man in a top hat between the two von Brauns is the feared and hated German staff officer responsible for the V2 rocket program, General Walter Dornberger.
As Hitler's Third Reich was crumbling in January 1945, von Braun made plans to move his team of about 125 leading rocket scientists and engineers of the world, south to surrender to the Americans.
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 Dr. Werner von Braun - STARTREKFANS.NET
Wernher von Braun (1912—1977) was one of the most important rocket developers and champions of space exploration during the period between the 1930s and the 1970s.
Von Braun is well known as the leader of what has been called the “rocket team” which developed the V—2 ballistic missile for the Nazis during World War II.
The brainchild of von Braun’s rocket team operating at a secret laboratory at Peenemünde on the Baltic coast, the V—2 rocket was the immediate antecedent of those used in space exploration programs in the United States and the Soviet Union.
www.startrekfans.net /index.php?showtopic=6060   (1530 words)

  
 Space history: Aviation, rocketry and pre-manned spaceflight history.
Young von Braun emerged in the firm grasp of a policeman and despite being severely reprimanded by his father, the youngster's interest would not be denied.
In January of 1945, von Braun knew the war was over and made plans to move his team of about 125 rocket scientists and engineers south to surrender to the Americans.
Von Braun and his team arrived in April of 1950 and started working on the next generation of the V-2, the Redstone.
www.thespaceplace.com /history/rocket2.html   (2516 words)

  
 Wernher Von Braun: Germany
Wernher von Braun worked through the spring and summer of 1932, only to have the rocket fail when tested in front of the military.
However, Dornberger was impressed with von Braun and hired him to lead the military's rocket artillery unit.
Von Braun's natural talents as a leader shone, as well as his ability to assimilate great quantities of data while keeping in mind the big picture.
liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov /Academy/History/vonBraun/germany.html   (765 words)

  
 Wheels in the Sky - Wernher von Braun
Young Wernher von Braun was so inspired by the dream of space travel that he devoted his life to space science and rocketry.
After all, von Braun was the technical director for the Army Ordnance Guided Missiles Development Group at the time, and later became the director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
Many of these details were devised by von Braun, but the concept of a spinning wheel-shaped space station had been thought of before.
www.firstscience.com /SITE/ARTICLES/wheels.asp   (1274 words)

  
 V2ROCKET.COM - Von Braun's Evacuation
Von Braun's staff was now under the direct command of the SS, Hitler's elite army, and von Braun feared that SS General Hans Kammler might possibly use the scientists as a bargaining chip or have the scientists killed to keep them from being captured by the Allies.
Von Braun had received several contradictory orders from German High Command which was in mass confusion at the time.
General Kammler ordered von Braun and 500 of the top scientists to be separated from their families and moved to the village of Oberammergau.
www.v2rocket.com /start/chapters/flight2.html   (1481 words)

  
 : Lee Saunders : A Promise Of Peace : Dr. Wernher Von Braun :   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Funding continued to flow to von Braun's research team, and von Braun's dream was slowly becoming a reality as the team went to work designing and experimenting on the ideas for a liquid fuelled rocket.
Von Braun was briefly arrested by the SS and the Gestapo, charging von Braun for crimes against the state.
Von Braun had broken his arm in a car crash, but he had achieved his goal in reaching the relative safety of the US army.
www.leesaunders.com /html/VBraun.htm   (2341 words)

  
 Reputations: Werner Von Braun
Von Braun’s experiences, as an amateur rocket enthusiast, eventually as a professional working for the Nazi Party and the SS, plot the development of modern rocket technology during the 1930s and 1940s.
His subsequent career as a developer of missiles and as a NASA director is the story of the ‘Arms Race’ and the ‘Space Race’ of the Cold War.
Von Braun’s career in Nazi Germany would make a good ‘personality’ Case Study for that society.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Werner Von Braun: The Man Who Sold the Moon: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It claims that the US Army, in their zeal to have von Braun's team of scientists working for American interests, covered up what they knew about his complicity in Nazi causes and abetted him in the perpetuation of the myth he created about his past.
Von Braun supervised the rocket's construction at the Nazis' Mittelwerk factory, which used slave labor from the nearby Dora concentration camp.
That von Braun was a working and supportive member of the Nazi Party has now been publicized, well documented and backed up with many previously classified records made available to the public through the Freedom of Information Act.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0275962172   (1379 words)

  
 Wernher von Braun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Wernher von Braun, the son of a Prussian baron, was born in Wirsitz, Germany in 1912.
In 1932 Braun's achievements attracted the attentions of Walter Dornberger, who was in charge of the solid-fuel rocket research and development in the Ordnance Department of the German Army.
Braun and 40 other rocker scientists were taken to the United States where they worked on the development of nuclear missiles.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAbraun.htm   (1492 words)

  
 Werner von Braun
After World War II, German-born rocket engineer Werner von Braun came to the US, where he developed rockets for the United States military and for NASA.
It was later calculated that thousands of people enslaved by the Nazis had been killed working in von Braun's missile projects, in addition to the thousands killed in London from the notorious V-2 missile, developed by von Braun.
Braun, Werner; text by Rosenthal, Gabriella; translated by Zehava Albert and Eamonn Doyle.-- Jerusalem: with 40 color plates.
www.multied.com /Bio/people/braun.html   (133 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Last rocketeers set sights on Mars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1960, von Braun is named the first director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, which develops Saturn rockets designed to reach the moon.
"Von Braun was at a party and talked about it with some people, and the Nazis found out and put him in jail." He was later released, but the message was clear.
Von Braun sent his younger brother, Magnus, off on a bicycle to try to find the Americans.
www.usatoday.com /money/industries/technology/2004-12-07-rocketeers_x.htm   (1977 words)

  
 Wernher Von Braun
Wernher Von Braun was one of the world's first and foremost rocket engineers and a leading authority on space travel.
Living in Huntsville, Alabama from 1950 to 1970, Dr. von Braun first directed the technical development of the U.S. Army's ballistic missile program at Redstone Arsenal, and later served as Director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
When he transferred to Washington, D.C., he left Huntsville with a rich legacy: the research institutions at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, the Alabama Space and Rocket Center, and the Von Braun Civic Center.
liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov /academy/history/VonBraun/VonBraun.html   (169 words)

  
 When might we go back to the Moon?
As an example, we might note that, between 1937 and 1945, von Braun and his coworkers spent approximately 2 billion US Wartime dollars designing and testing the V-2 rocket for the German Army.
Because of the extraordinary circumstances of the Cold War, Apollo was undertaken on a crash schedule and, as Arthur C. Clarke noted in an essay published the week of Apollo 11, too much happened too fast for anyone to properly appreciate what had been done and where all of it might lead.
Had the space program developed more along the lines that von Braun outlined in the early 50's, by the time we were ready to go to the Moon, the program might have reached a stage of relative maturity comparable to, say, the state of aviation in the post-Lindbergh/Earhart years.
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 Woman in the Moon
It was thanks to Werner Von Braun that the Americans beat the Soviets to the moon - the same Von Braun whom the Nazi Germany had the to thank for their V1 and V2 rockets.
The narrative jumps back and forth between the kitsch utopia of 1960’s America (Von Braun’s refuge from the Nuremburg trials) to Dora, the site where the rocket scientist oversaw the development of his weapons and his resulting murder of countless slave labourers who worked under him.
Out of historic fact Pascal created a confrontation between von Braun and a Holocaust-survivor-turned-journalist (significantly called Dora and powerfully played by Ruth Postner), and we lurch back to her memories of Nazi persecution before her American life.
www.pascal-theatre.com /pascmoonreview.htm   (953 words)

  
 Wernher Von Braun: The Space Age
Von Braun: The Beginning of the Space Age
Triumphanty displaying a model of the Explorer 1 are (l-r): Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Director Dr. James Pickering, Dr. James van Allen of the State University of Iowa, and Dr. von Braun.
Dr. Von Braun and astronaut Gordon Cooper in the control room during the launch of the first manned Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle, carrying astronaut Alan Shepard on his historic sub-orbital flight.
liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov /academy/history/VonBraun/SpaceAge.html   (531 words)

  
 Aphorisms Galore! -- Forums: Von Braun was Hitler's secret weapon!
WERNER VON BRAUN:The Man Who Sold the Moon is the first critical biography of the young German aristocrat who created Hitler's most advanced terror weapon, the V-2 rocket, and who came to the U.S. under the Army's Project Paperclip to develop missiles as a central weapon of the Cold War.
The book reveals that factions of the U.S. Army, in their zeal to have VON BRAUN's team of scientists working for American interests, covered up what they knew about his complicity in Nazi causes and abetted him in the perpetuation of the myth he carefully created about his past.
When the Third Reich collapsed, von Braun unashamedly switched his allegiance to the victor, and adroitly distanced himself from his Nazi partners.
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 ipedia.com: Wernher von Braun Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
desk with models of rockets developed and in progress.]] Wernher von Braun was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States.
Von Braun was allegedly seen at the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp proper, witnessing piled up dead bodies.
Later in life, von Braun said he had been ashamed of what he saw.
www.ipedia.com /wernher_von_braun.html   (2002 words)

  
 Von Braun Astronomical Society - Our Facilities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Von Braun Astronomical Society has facilities on top of Monte Sano, within the State Park, on 10 acres of land.
The Wernher von Braun Planetarium is used for a variety of public and special sky shows which are presented by both VBAS members and outside speakers drawn from the Huntsville community.
All planetarium shows begin at 7:30pm and are held at the Von Braun Astronomical Society Planetarium in Monte Sano State Park.
www.vbas.org /facilities.cfm   (313 words)

  
 Nancy Red Star - Anti-Satellite Weapons, interview with Carol Rosin,
Dr. von Braun became famous for his expertise and his visionary goal to expand man's knowledge through the exploration of space.
In the past 30 years as Carol has worked hard to carry out Dr. von Braun's challenge to her, she has often thought of his warnings about the misuse of space and an "Enemy's List" that he said the American government was using to keep the media and public in support of Pentagon budgets.
von Braun would have tears in his eyes every time – and he repeated this continuously to me when he talked about us in the galaxy – he would say 'with a hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
www.nancyredstar.com /wmd/Anti_Satellite.htm   (5817 words)

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