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Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun played a lead role in designing and developing the German V-2 rocket during World War II. At the top of the Black List of German scientists and engineers targeted for immediate interrogation by U.S. military experts, he managed to surrender to the Americans a week before the German surrender. The Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency falsified his employment history and expunged his Nazi memberships, and the secretary of state approved his transfer to the US in June. After his arrival in September he was taken to Fort Bliss, near El Paso, Texas, and then, in 1950, to Huntsville, Alabama, where he developed the Redstone rocket, which was used for the 1st live American nuclear ballistic missile tests, and the Jupiter-C, which launched the 1st American satellite, both in 1958. In 1960 he became the 1st director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Flight Center, and was largely responsible for developing the Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the moon in 1969.
Meanwhile, he wrote a science fiction novel about a 1980 mission to Mars, but the manuscript was rejected by 18 publishers; it was finally published as "Project MARS: A Technical Tale" in 2006, 30 years after his death. In 1952 he became the 1st person to make a detailed technical study of a Mars mission, "Das Marsprojekt" (published in English as "The Mars Project" in 1962). At the same time he also published a series of articles in "Collier's Weekly" ("Man Will Conquer Space Soon!").
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun played a lead role in designing and developing the German V-2 rocket during World War II. At the top of the Black List of German scientists and engineers targeted for immediate interrogation by U.S. military experts, he managed to surrender to the Americans a week before the German surrender. The Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency falsified his employment history and expunged his Nazi memberships, and the secretary of state approved his transfer to the US in June. After his arrival in September he was taken to Fort Bliss, near El Paso, Texas, and then, in 1950, to Huntsville, Alabama, where he developed the Redstone rocket, which was used for the 1st live American nuclear ballistic missile tests, and the Jupiter-C, which launched the 1st American satellite, both in 1958. In 1960 he became the 1st director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's
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Meanwhile, he wrote a science fiction novel about a 1980 mission to Mars, but the manuscript was rejected by 18 publishers; it was finally published as "Project MARS: A Technical Tale" in 2006, 30 years after his death. In 1952 he became the 1st person to make a detailed technical study of a Mars mission, "Das Marsprojekt" (published in English as "The Mars Project" in 1962). At the same time he also published a series of articles in "Collier's Weekly" ("Man Will Conquer Space Soon!").
very good comments! Thanks Mr. Duane.
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