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unusual facts about Von Braun


Von Braun

The VonBraun, a fictional faster-than-light starship from the 1999 personal computer game System Shock 2


Keyserlingk

The Keyserlingks have family relations with Barrett, von Below, von Bogen, Bordehl von Bordelius, von Braun, von der Brueggen, von Dehn, Finck von Finckenstein, von Grotthuss, von Hahn, Hillis, von Kleist, von Lieven, von der Pahlen, Perkins, Popp, von Quistorp, von Rahden, von der Recke, von Roenne, von der Ropp, Ruggels, Schick, Schirinski Schikhmatoff, Spano, Sponholtz, Thurn und Taxis, Turcot, Wadenstierna and Wilson.


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Ernst Stuhlinger

In the 1950s, Stuhlinger, along with von Braun, collaborated with Walt Disney Pictures.

Starting in 1990, Stuhlinger and Frederick I. Ordway III collaborated on the two-volume biography Werhner von Braun: Crusader for Space (Krieger Publishing, 1994).

Igor Sacharow-Ross

Text by Andrea Niehaus, Dieter Ronte, Susanne Witzgall, Irene Kleinschmidt-Altpeter, Peter Ulrich Hein, Klaus-Peter Speidel, Christoph-Friedrich von Braun, Robert Huber, Ernst Pöppel.

Information Centre for History and Technology, Peenemünde

In the mid-1960s, building on his technical experience from Peenemünde, Wernher von Braun was able to design the Saturn V rocket for NASA that was used to fly to the moon.

OTRAG

In the face of doubts by Debus and von Braun, Kayser chose in 1975 to set up testing and launch facilities in Shaba, Zaire (now Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Redstone Arsenal

At a 1954 meeting of the Spaceflight Committee of the American Rocket Society, von Braun proposed placing a satellite into orbit using the Redstone with clusters of small solid-fuel rockets on top.

Robert Lusser

Based on these calculations, he was to pronounce that von Braun's ambitions of reaching the Moon and Mars were doomed to failure because of the complexity of the spacecraft required.

Shannon Bohle

She has held professional memberships in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), The British Society for the History of Science, The National Space Society which was founded by Wernher von Braun, The Planetary Society, The Mars Society founded by Robert Zubrin, and is a Registered Consultant for the Science & Entertainment Exchange run by the National Academy of Sciences.

TWA Moonliner

It resembled von Braun's V-2 rocket design but depicted what a commercial spaceliner might look like for traveling to the Moon in the faraway year of 1986.