Wernher von Braun

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Wernher von Braun

• By Sarah Ismond
• And
• Michelle Aragon

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The Early Years

• Becomes interested in the universe on the day of
  his confirmation in the Lutheran church
• His first experience with rockets

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Education

• Sent to boarding school
• First learns of Hermann Oberths, The Rocket
  into Interplanetary Space
• Receives his Ph.D. in physics

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World War II

• Becomes a civilian of the German Army
• Develops the V-2 rocket
• Surrenders to US Army

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Life in the US

• Brought to Fort Bliss to work for the US Army
• Writes The Mars Project
• Returns to Germany to marry his cousin

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Colliers Magazine

• Crossing the Last Frontier
• Stresses the importance of US military superiority

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Colliers continued

• Man on the Moon
• The Journey
• Exploration of the Moon

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Colliers continued

• The Baby Space Station
• First Step in the Conquest of Space

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A-Series Rockets

• The A-1
• Size, failed success in the army.
• The A-2
• continued support from military.
• The A-3
• larger, more powerful.
• The A-4
• October 3, 1942 liquid oxygen/alcohol fueled.

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V-2 Rocket

• Vengeance 2
• Attacks on London and Paris
• Unorthodox testing

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V-2 Rocket

• V-2 at White Sands
• The Bumper
• Americas firsts

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Jupiter Rocket

• Jupiter A
• Army/Navy joint effort
• Jupiter C

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Redstone

• Project Mercury
• M-3 failure
• First American in Space

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Atlas

• Americas first man in orbit
• The Atlas-Agena rocket
• Agenas role in unmanned lunar missions

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Titan II

• Two-stage, liquid fueled
• Role in project Gemini
• Power of the Titan rocket

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Saturn Rockets

• Saturn 1
• S-1
• S-IV
• Successful test flights
• Saturn IB
• Powerful second stage
• objectives

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Saturn V

• Manned moon missions
• 3 stages
• Speed
• Role in Apollo program

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References

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
• http//history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/index.html
• http//www1.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/coltech.html
• Piszkiewicz, Dennis. Wernher von Braun The Man
  Who Sold the Moon. Westport, CT Praeger, 1998.