Wernher Von Braun's Life And Accomplishments

Something that many people do not know about Eva is that, she was a simple woman who lived a seemingly simple life. Eva Braun was born on February 6, 1912 to Friedrich and Franziska Braun, in Munich Germany(3).

He grew up with a successful, intelligent, and wealthy family. He was well-raised in the wealthy community and city of Greenwich, Connecticut. This allowed readers to foreshadow Braun’s successful works in his future. Although, most people grow up in poor surroundings outside the country, but it is important to

Kennedy went before the congress to ask for additional “$7 billion to $9 billion over the next five years for the space program” and challenged the nation to reach the moon by the end of the decade: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth”. With the goal set by JFK to land a human on the moon by the end of the decade, federal budget poured into the NASA to develop a spacecraft to reach the moon. Headed by rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, who came to the US after WWII under the Nazi regime that developed the V-2 rocket, a team of engineers began the ambitious development of a vehicle that would be capable of reaching space, landing on the moon, and returning back to earth. This would later be known as the Saturn V under the Apollo program. With newly developed technologies such as multi-rocket staging, telemetry instruments, and safety measures, the Saturn rocket program was a success that would allow astronauts to safely land on the

“By the time he was twenty, while still a student at the University of Berlin, Von Braun was recruited by the army and charged with building a rocket that was superior to the largest guns” (Cadbury 9). Von Braun had already began designing his first rocket called the A-1. It was ready to test in 1933- the same year Hitler came to power.

The next American thing to go up into space was the Explorer 1, a satellite used to measure the radiation in Earth's orbit. The Explorer 1 was formally known as Satellite 1958 Alpha. The program at the California Institute of Technology that was to make the Explorer 1 had taken only three months to build the satellite. The Explorer 1 was launched in January 31, 1958 from Cape Canaveral and was America's first satellite. It was sent up into space with the use of a Jupiter-C vehicle, which is "a special modification of the Redstone ballistic missile" (Explorer-I and Jupiter-C). The Jupiter-C vehicle was, under the management of Dr. Wernher Von Braun, a German scientist. Dr. Wernher Von Braun was part of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, also known as ABMA. Once the satellite was up in orbit, it started its tests on how much radiation was in Earth's orbit. The scientist who was in charge of this experiment was Dr. James Van Allen. The Explorer had found that the level radiation was very low which went against Dr. Van Allen's prediction. Dr. Van Allen then made another prediction that the equipment that was used on the satellite was corrupted by a powerful belt of radiation. A couple months later when the second satellite went up

He was born into a Catholic family with German origins in a small town in Austria-Hungary ( later Zwittau, Czechoslovakia) on April 28th, 1908 and he grew up in Zwittau, Moravia. He had a younger sister named Elfriede and he is Son of an uneducated alcoholic who sold electric motors for a father and an elegant and pleasant woman as a mother. He died on October 9th, 1974 in Frankfurt, Germany due to heart and liver problems. He had

“By the time he was twenty, while still a student at the University of Berlin, Von Braun was recruited by the army and charged with building a rocket that was superior to the largest guns” (Cadbury 9). Von Braun had already began designing his first rocket called the A-1. It was ready to test in 1933- the same year Hitler came to power.

Nuclear weapons threaten to end the world and begin the step by step process to space travel. The U.S and Russia go ballistic over missiles all because of a former Nazi, Von Braun.This was because he was really smart and he would be the one to design the United States first rocket. He fled Europe to the U.S., to help them build a missile. In Russia, a prisoner named Sergei Korolev was forced to work by Stalin to build a replica missile of Von Braun’s

On September 6th of 1944, mankind’s aspiration to reach the stars slammed into the Earth in the form of the V2 rocket striking Paris (Britannica; Hollingham). The V2 rocket was a new sort of weapon: it combined the elegance of rocket science into the brutality of war, with it enabling Nazi Germany to claim thousands of lives. The man responsible for designing such a perversion of human ambition, Werner Von Braun, would later become indispensable to the United States’ mission to put a man on the moon. The moon project not only showed the vast capability of the US science program, but also revolutionized many fields of technology and thus bringing a new sense of pride to all mankind in human achievement. From Von Braun’s actions, a paradox arises:

Adolph Herrman Kohrs was born on February 4, 1847 in Wuppertal, Germany. In 1862, his family moved to Dortmund where he signed a three year article of apprenticeship to the Henry Wenker Brewery. Even though this job lead to later fame and fortune, Adolph’s parents died which left him as an orphan at a very young age. Having to support himself financially, Adolph completed his apprenticeship and continued working as a paid employee with the Wenker Brewery until May of 1867. He then worked at breweries in Kassel, Berlin, and Uelzen in Germany.

However, it also had detractors, there were people who believed that some of the scientists who had been imported into the United States were accomplices or had directly participated in crimes that made them unfit for US residence and citizenship. For example, it was said that von Braun himself must have been aware that thousands of forced laborers had been killed in the underground factory at Nördhausen where the V-2 rockets were being built. Another example was that of the scientist Georg Rickhey, who was transferred to the United States in the framework of Operation Paperclip and indicted for war crimes in 1947. He was curiously acquitted and returned to the US, to continue with his work for the government. Finally, the case of Hubertus Strughold, related through written tests with the terrible medical experiments of the Concentration Camp of Dachau, never faced charges. In despite of all these critiques, they were not sanctioned or taken away from their jobs to face justice, on the contrary they were awarded with responsibilities, for example, in 1960, the Rocket Development Center was transferred from the Army to NASA and there they were entrusted with the construction of the gigantic Saturn rockets. Von Braun became the director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the main designer of Saturn V, which during the years 1969 and 1972 would take Americans to the Moon. This accomplishment made him worthy of the American indulgency and

First, Von Braun was the most important source of information on rocketry in the U.S. after World War Two. Why? Well, he had experience in launching rockets. Years after world war 2, von Braun helped the Army develop ballistic missiles. In 1960, he helped build Saturn rockets and he became the chief designer of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that would propel astronauts to the Moon. Von Braun engineered the surrender of five hundred of his top rocket scientists to the Americans. His rocket team and himself went to Fort Bliss, Texas. There they worked on rockets for the Army. As a student at the Berlin Institute of Technology, he

Officially, Operation Paperclip prohibited any recruitment by EE. UU. Of any German scientist who had been a member of the German National Socialist Workers' Party (NSDAP) or who had been actively involved in its activities.

Von Braun the leader of the scientists had discussed with the other chief designers about the possibility of surrendering to the Americans. Cadbury states that the German scientists decided that the best solution would be to go to the Americans because they had the capabilities of creating a functional space program (14). In order to achieve this they would have to be very careful not to get caught because if they were it would be considered treason and they would be executed by the government. A few months before the war ended the entire V2 experimental team and their research made the move from Peenemünde to Mittelwerk which was the production base for the V2 missile which was made with slave labor. At Mittelwerk the German scientists were “guarded” by the SS who had orders to shoot them rather than let them fall into enemy hands. The German scientists meanwhile made plans for their getaway by buying an abandoned mine in order to store the years of research that they had gained and also turned their guards away from their mission and had them become regular soldiers and surrender to the Americans alongside them. The U.S army and the Soviet intelligence agency NKVD had been tracking the rocketeers and had been trying to recruit them. On the second of May the German scientists finally encountered the Americans and they were all taken by the American Army into

ALBERT EINSTEIN Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879 in Germany. His family owned a small business that manufactured electric machinery. The business failed and they left Germany. Albert was fifteen years old and he dropped out of school. When Albert was five when he received his first compass and he began to investigate the world. Little did he know that that compass would make him famous.