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Wernher von Braun
By Sarah Ismond
And
Michelle Aragon
The Early Years
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Becomes interested in
the universe on the
day of his
confirmation in the
Lutheran church
His first experience
with rockets
Education
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Sent to boarding
school
First learns of
Hermann Oberth’s,
“The Rocket into
Interplanetary Space”
Receives his Ph.D. in
physics
World War II
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Becomes a civilian of
the German Army
Develops the V-2
rocket
Surrenders to US
Army
Life in the US
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Brought to Fort Bliss
to work for the US
Army
Writes “The Mars
Project”
Returns to Germany
to marry his cousin
Colliers Magazine
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“Crossing the Last
Frontier”
Stresses the
importance of US
military superiority
Colliers continued
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Man on the Moon
“The Journey”
“Exploration of the
Moon”
Colliers continued
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The Baby Space
Station
“First Step in the
Conquest of Space”
A-Series Rockets
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The A-1
Size, failed success in the
army.
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The A-2
continued support from
military.
The A-3
larger, more powerful.
The A-4
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October 3, 1942; liquid
oxygen/alcohol fueled.
V-2 Rocket
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Vengeance 2
Attacks on London
and Paris
Unorthodox testing
V-2 Rocket
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V-2 at White Sands
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The Bumper
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America’s “firsts”
Jupiter Rocket
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Jupiter A
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Army/Navy joint effort
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Jupiter C
Redstone
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Project Mercury
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M-3 failure
First American in
Space
Atlas
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America’s first man in
orbit
The Atlas-Agena
rocket
Agena’s role in
unmanned lunar
missions
Titan II
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Two-stage, liquid
fueled
Role in project Gemini
Power of the Titan
rocket
Saturn Rockets
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Saturn 1
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S-1
S-IV
Successful test flights
Saturn IB
Powerful second stage
objectives
Saturn V
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Manned moon
missions
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3 stages
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Speed
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Role in Apollo
program
References
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/index.ht
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http://www1.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/coltech.html
Piszkiewicz, Dennis. Wernher von Braun: The
Man Who Sold the Moon. Westport, CT: Praeger,
1998.