Braun's Accomplishments

Wernher von Braun always had an interest in rockets. At a young age, he would attach sky rocket fireworks to go-carts and ride them down

Major accomplishments he had in his lifetime is he invented the sciences of mechanics and hydrostatics. He also discovered the laws of levers and pulleys. He calculated pi to the most precise number still known today. He showed how exponents could be used to write bigger numbers. He also invented the first water pump to get fresh water out of the ground. It was known as the archimedes screw.

Robert Goddard was a brilliant scientist. On October 8th, 1882 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Goddard was born. Electricity was invented two years later, after his birth, and was the thing that sparked his interest in science. (source 5) His long life of rocket science started when he was in his school’s basement, launched a rocket and the school took immediate interest in him but did not expel or suspend him. While he was building his rocket, like many others, he did not achieve his goal first try but he tried and failed many times before he actually did successfully build and finish his rocket. Goddard created the first liquid-fueled rocket, applied past knowledge to new situations, he tried again and again and applied past information, and illuminated the world by inspiring them.

Wernher Von Braun was a hero, even with his work on the V2. Wernher Von Braun worked at NASA, and on the V2. However, his work on the V2 reflected badly on him. He created a lot of complex technology that had a large impact on the world. Furthermore, he was a great leader, and wasn’t afraid to do what was right. Wernher Von Braun is a hero for what he is like, how he impacted the world, and his ability as a leader and engineer.

When he was twelve years of age, he made a bunch of rockets because he was inspired by Max Valier and Fritz von Opel. He and a fellow student built an automobile in his father’s garage when he was going to the French Gymnasium school in Berlin. His dad transferred him to a boarding school that focused on developing technical skills and building things. He transferred him because von Braun was too smart and already had good skills, so his dad thought that he should be taught more. When von Braun was fourteen years old, he really became interested in space and astronomy. He got all his information from a book called “The Rocket to the Interplanetary Spaces,” by Hermann Oberth. In that book had lots of formulas and mathematical symbols that didn’t make any sense whatsoever to von Braun. After his math teacher had explained them to von Braun, he became buried in them all the time. Soon after, he graduated in success a year ahead of his class. Willy Ley introduced von Braun to Professor Oberth. He became one of Oberth’s assistants while Oberth was working on rockets. Von Braun made another rocket and it reached an altitude of about 1,000

the award-winning engineer turned cartoonist drew a bunch of simple machines that made simple task into complicated process to do. His drawings, using simple gadgets and household items already in use, were hard ,and complex and crazy , but had an great logical progression to them. Goldberg’s inventions became so widely known that a dictionary added his machine a word , defining it as “accomplishing by extremely complex,what really could be done simply is complicated. .” In the words of the inventor, the machines were a “symbol of man’s capacity for putting in maximum effort to achieve minimal results.” He believed that most people preferred doing things the hard way than using a more simple and direct path to accomplish a goal.

Not only a rocket specialist, von Braun dreamed of space travel. He came at a great time as American conquest “shifted from the great Western frontier to the final frontier of space” (Kilgor). He himself wished to go into a shuttle but by the time it was possible, he as much too old (Neufeld 210). This didn't discourage him though as he still wished to design rocket. He believed technological advancements were a means to an end.

He ascended through the ranks quickly, starting as a cadet and then making it all the way to Major General. Involved in almost every aspect of the war, from trench warfare to devising military strategy, he proved himself to be a strong asset for Germany. Although he launched a futile attempt to restore German pride and win the war near the before the United States got fully involved, he was still one of the most successful leaders. This reputation would help boost his career and it created a more confident and influential

In his twenties or is EARLY thirties, von braun worked in a Nazi german rocket development program, where he designed the V-2 rocket AT Peenemunde during the war 2. Following the war, von braun worked in the U.S Army on an intermediate-range ballistic missile PROGRAM BEFORE HIS GROUP WAS PLACED INTO nasa. uNDER nasa, he served as a director of the newly formed marshall space flight center as chief of the SATURN V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the APOLLO spacecraft to the moon.

Ernest Rutherford is often ascribed as the greatest and most respectable experimental scientist, second to none. His unparalleled success is attributed to his revolutionary work regarding but not limited to the atom. Rutherford's ingenuity and dexterity was able to alter our insight of nature three remarkable times. He first set laws on radioactive decay, explaining it as the spontaneous disintegration of atoms. He then riveted the scientific community when he determined the structure of the atom.

Emerging with eyes wide open from the Age of Imperialism that shaped the twentieth century’s biggest and most powerful nations only a century before, the world seemed a whole new place of wonder and grandeur. Civilization was ready for change. And it began with breakthroughs in medicine and science, and expanded with technology on a wide scale. Soon society was seeing a transformation in politics, culture, and ideology. But of the greatness spawned, there was also tragedy, bloodshed across battle fields, and rising evils from the most desperate of trenches. The twentieth century is marked by not only innovation but the collapse of several age-old empires, the destruction of two World Wars, a dire Depression, and the takeover of governments

Enrico Fermi lived from 1901-1954 and played several important roles in the development of nuclear fission. He figured out a way to show that nuclear transformation is happening in nearly every element that is put through neutron blasting. This led to the discovery of slow neutrons and nuclear fission. He also was in charge of many experiments that ended up leading to the atomic pile and the first controlled nuclear chain reaction. Not only that, but he also played a huge role in solving issues with the development of the first atomic bomb.

I decided that for my project i would research Wernher von Braun. The reason i chose him was because of his development of missiles and rockets for the United States of America and Germany. He boosted the efforts of the Americans during the cold war with the Soviet Union and became the first head of the National Aviation and Space Administration. This is important to us in aviation because he helped to propel American aviation to new heights with technology developed during the space race.

He is the first person to make a successful electric motor to power his inventions and other people's inventions.

Some of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s achievements are as follows: in 2001 he got the Medal of Excellence,in Columbia University, New York City, in 2004 he got the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, in 2007 he got the Klopsteg Memorial Award winner, in 2009 he got the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award from the Space Foundation for significant contributions to public awareness of space programs, in 2009 he got the Isaac Asimov award from the American Humanist Association.