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    von Braun, named after the rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun, is a lunar impact crater located near the northwestern limb of the Moon. It lies along the...
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    Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (US: /ˌvɜːrnər vɒn ˈbraʊn/ VUR-nər von BROWN, German: [ˌvɛʁnheːɐ̯ fɔn ˈbʁaʊ̯n]; 23 March 1912 – 16 June 1977)...
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  • diplomat, Wernher's brother Wernher von Braun (1912–1977), influential aerospace engineer von Braun, lunar crater The VonBraun, a fictional faster-than-light...
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    southwest of the crater von Braun and southeast of Bunsen. Due south of Lavoisier is the disintegrated crater Ulugh Beigh. This is a worn crater formation with...
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    A rotating wheel space station, also known as a von Braun wheel, is a concept for a hypothetical wheel-shaped space station. Originally proposed by Konstantin...
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    Operation Paperclip (category Wernher von Braun)
    advised von Braun's rocket team in the U.S. from 1955 to 1958; neither Ley, nor Oberth moved to the US via the Operation Paperclip. Two lunar craters are...
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    nearest craters of note are Gerard, farther to the west, and von Braun to the west-southwest. To the northeast of Harding is the smaller crater Dechen...
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  • The Mars Project (category Wernher von Braun)
    German-American) rocket physicist, astronautics engineer and space architect Wernher von Braun. It was translated from the original German by Henry J. White and first...
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    December 1948, when he was promoted to assistant technical director to von Braun at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The arsenal became the...
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    impact crater that lies near the northwestern limb of the Moon. It is located to the west of the Oceanus Procellarum and the crater von Braun. To the...
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    the Moon's near side. It is located to the north-northwest of the crater von Braun, and northeast of Bunsen. Because of its location, Gerard appears strongly...
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  • Man and the Moon (category Wernher von Braun)
    Kimball then introduces Dr. Wernher von Braun, who discusses plans for a trip around the Moon. Dr. Wernher von Braun was employed as a technical consultant...
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    Riedel refused to join Wernher von Braun in the army's rocket programme and worked for Siemens. He accepted von Braun's offer only in August 1937 after...
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    Travel. New York: The Viking Press. p. 222. Max Valier, Raketenfahrt, 1930 von Braun, Wernher; Ordway, Frederick I; Dooling, Jr, David (1985) [First published...
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    enthusiasts who joined the Society, which included persons such as Wernher von Braun, Rolf Engel, Rudolf Nebel or Paul Ehmayr. Oberth lacked the opportunities...
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    success of the Apollo Program, von Braun advocated a crewed mission to Mars as a focus for NASA's crewed space program. Von Braun's proposal used Saturn V boosters...
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    V-2 rocket (category Wernher von Braun)
    use of long-range rockets began when the graduate studies of Wernher von Braun were noticed by the Wehrmacht Heer. A series of prototypes culminated...
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    to Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge, this affection was not shared by Eva Braun, Hitler's companion, who preferred her two Scottish Terrier dogs named Negus...
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  • Back to the Moon (category Cultural depictions of Wernher von Braun)
    in Shorty Crater at the very end of the EVA and gathers samples in a race against time to get back to the LEM. Meanwhile, Wernher von Braun is watching...
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    book gives details of the purported Soviet autopsies of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Joseph and Magda Goebbels, their children, and General Hans Krebs. Each...
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  • accompanied many diploma theses and dissertations, including that of Wernher von Braun, who completed his dissertation in 1934. The contacts between the testing...
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  • the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description pages...
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    with the 16-year-old Goethe. Goethe Basin, a large crater on the planet Mercury Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe-Gymnasium W. H. Murray – author of misattributed...
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    administration. In a series of mid-1950s articles in Collier's magazine, Wernher von Braun had popularized the idea of a crewed expedition to establish a lunar base...
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    (gaminarie). Süsskind expected the book to show some reaction to Wernher von Braun's coming to America, and some clarification of the Hsue-shen Tsien affair...
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  • 1950s through 1970s. He also illustrated many book covers. When Wernher von Braun organized a space flight symposium for Collier's, he invited Bonestell...
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    features on Mars List of albedo features on Mercury Massif Ley, Willy and von Braun, Wernher The Exploration of Mars New York:1956 The Viking Press Pages...
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    the military, which greatly expanded under the leadership of Wernher von Braun. With the collapse of the VfR, the rise of a culture of necessary secrecy...
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  • Heylandt Company was taken over by the Army and amalgamated with the Wernher von Braun Group at the Army Proving Grounds at Kummersdorf, near Berlin, in order...
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    impacts to the north. Early concepts of a Moon landing promoted by Wernher von Braun envisaged the establishment of a permanent lunar base in the Sinus Roris...
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