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Dr. Wernher von Braun
Von Braun standing at his desk at Marshall Space Flight Center in May 1964, with models of rockets developed and in progress.
Born
March 23, 1912(1912-03-23)Wirsitz, German Empire
Died
June 16, 1977 (aged65)Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Causeof death
Colon Cancer
Nationality
German, American
Occupation
Rocket engineer and designer.
Spouse(s)
Maria Luise von Quistorp (m.19471977) ?start:(1947)nd+1:(1978)?"Marriage: Maria Luise von Quistorp to Wernher von Braun" Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun)
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 June 16, 1977), a German rocket physicist and astronautics engineer, became one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States. Wernher von Braun is sometimes said to be the preeminent rocket engineer of the 20th century.
In his 20s and early 30s, von Braun was the central figure in Germany's pre-war rocket development program, responsible for the design and realization of the deadly V-2 combat rocket during World War II. After the war, he and some of his rocket team were taken to the United States as part of the then-secret Operation Overcast. In 1955, ten years after entering the country, von Braun became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Von Braun worked on the American intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program before joining NASA, where he served as director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon. He is generally regarded as the father of the United States space program, both for his technical and organizational skills, and for his public relations efforts on behalf of space flight. He received the 1975 National Medal of Science.
Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Early life
1.2 German career
1.2.1 The Prussian rocketeer
1.2.2 Slave labor
1.2.3 Arrest and release by the Nazi regime
1.3 Surrender to the Americans
1.4 American career
1.4.1 U.S. Army career
1.4.2 Popular concepts for a human presence in space
1.4.3 Concepts for orbital warfare
1.4.4 NASA career
1.4.5 Career after NASA
1.5 Death
2 Published works
3 Quotations
4 Honors
5 Posthumous recognition and critique
6 Cultural references
6.1 On film and television
6.2 In print media
6.3 In novels
6.4 In music
6.5 In computer games
7 See also
8 References
8.1 Notes
8.2 Bilbliography
9 Further reading
10 External links
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Biography
Early life
Wernher von Braun was born in Wirsitz (Wyrzysk), Province of Posen, then a part of the German Empire, and was the second of three sons. He was born into a minor aristocratic family, inheriting the German title of Freiherr. Wernher could also style himself as Wernher Baron von Braun. His father, the conservative civil servant Magnus Freiherr von Braun (18771972), although never a party politician, served as a Minister of Agriculture in the Federal Cabinet during the Weimar Republic. His mother, Emmy von Quistorp (18861959), could trace her ancestry through both parents to medieval European royalty. Von Braun also had a younger brother, also named Magnus Freiherr von Braun, born in 1919. After Wernher von Braun's Lutheran confirmation, his mother gave him a telescope, and he discovered a passion for astronomy. When Wyrzysk was given to Poland in 1918, his family, like many other German families, moved to Germany. They settled in Berlin, where the 12-year-old von Braun, inspired by speed records established by Max Valier and Fritz von Opel, caused a major disruption in a crowded street by detonating a toy wagon to which he had attached a number of fireworks. The youngster was taken into custody by the local police until his father came to collect him.
Von Braun was an accomplished amateur musician who could play from memory Beethoven and Bach. Von Braun learned to play the cello and the piano at an early age and wanted to become a composer. To this end he took lessons from Paul Hindemith, the famous German composer. A few pieces of von Braun youthful compositions still exist, and are reminiscent of Hindemith style.
Starting in 1925, von Braun attended a boarding school at Ettersburg castle near Weimar where at first he did not do well in physics and mathematics. In 1928 his parents moved him to the Hermann-Lietz-Internat (also a residential school) on the East Frisian North Sea island of Spiekeroog, where he acquired a copy of the book Die Rakete zu den Planetenr?umen (The Rocket into Interplanetary Space) by rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth. The idea of space travel had always fascinated von Braun, and from that point on he applied himself to physics and mathematics in order to pursue his interest in rocketry.
Starting in 1930, he attended the Technical University of Berlin, where he joined the Verein f Raumschiffahrt (VfR, the "Spaceflight Society") and assisted Hermann Oberth in liquid-fueled rocket motor tests. He also studied at ETH Zurich. Although he worked mainly on military rockets in his later years, space travel remained his primary interest.
German career
The Prussian rocketeer

Walter Dornberger, Friedrich Olbricht, Wilhelm von Leeb, and von Braun at Peenemde, 1941
Von Braun was working on his creative doctorate when the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP, or Nazi party) was elected to power in Germany, and rocketry almost immediately became a national agenda. An artillery captain, Walter Dornberger, arranged an Ordnance Department research grant for him, and von Braun then worked next to Dornberger's existing solid-fuel rocket test site at Kummersdorf. He was awarded a doctorate in physics (aerospace engineering) on July 27, 1934 from the University of Berlin for a thesis titled About Combustion Tests; his doctoral advisor was Erich Schumann. However, this thesis was only the public part of von Braun's work. His actual full thesis, Construction, Theoretical, and Experimental Solution to the Problem of the Liquid Propellant Rocket (dated April 16, 1934) was kept classified by the army, and was not published until 1960. By the end of 1934, his group had successfully launched two rockets that rose to heights of 2.2 and 3.5 kilometers.
At the time, Germany was highly interested in American physicist Robert H. Goddard's research. Before 1939, German scientists occasionally contacted Goddard directly with technical questions. Wernher von Braun used Goddard's plans from various journals and incorporated them into the building of the Aggregat (A) series of rockets. The A-4 rocket is the well known V-2. In 1963, von Braun reflected on the history of rocketry, and said of Goddard's work: "His rockets... may have been rather crude by present-day standards, but they blazed the trail and incorporated many features used in our most modern rockets and space vehicles." Goddard confirmed his work was used by von Braun in 1944, shortly before the Nazis began firing V-2s at England. A V2 crashed in Sweden and was sent to an Annapolis lab where Goddard was doing research for the Navy. Goddard recognized many components which he had invented and realized his brain child had been turned into a weapon.
There were no German rocket societies after the collapse of the VFR, and civilian rocket tests were forbidden by the new Nazi regime. Only military development was allowed and to this end, a larger facility was erected at the village of Peenemde in northern Germany on the Baltic Sea. This location was chosen partly on the recommendation of von Braun's mother, who recalled her father's...(and so on) To get More information , you can visit some products about stainlesssteelcable , , .