Word: braun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...launch looked good. But lack of further reports made veteran "birdwatchers" sense that something had gone slightly wrong. Later that night came confirmation : Dr. Wernher von Braun, the Army's top space man, admitted that Juno II had missed perfection by a thin but sufficient hairbreadth. It was still climbing, but not climbing fast enough to get near the moon...
Behind Army's pressagentry lay some hard facts: 1) NASA takeover would break up Spaceman Wernher von Braun's dedicated Redstone team, which produced the dependable Jupiter-C and the first U.S. satellite, scatter experts into private industry; 2) Redstone works 85% on military, nonspace projects, and NASA is not allowed to make military decisions; 3) operating Redstone would cost more than NASA's total $301 million budget in overhead and equipment...
...space spokesman, Leonid Sedov. He said no more. Other astronauts concluded from what he said that he meant Russia will try to orbit a man in a Sputnik by spring. An American will achieve the same stunt within five years, said the U.S. Army's Wernher von Braun, "and most likely sooner...
...Cosmic radiation will not halt manned space flight, said Spaceman von Braun. The belt of radiation newly discovered by the Explorer satellites was unexpected, but most of it seems of low energy, and protection should be possible. Agreeing, Dr. Herbert York, chief scientist of the U.S. Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, said the belt is probably only several earth-diameters wide at most, not enough for a fatal radiation dose during a flight of several hours through...
...education, e.g., the National Association of Manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce. Among this session's most emphatic backers of federal aid legislation have been Marion Folsom, outgoing Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; Detlev Bronk, president of the National Academy of Sciences; Missileman Wernher von Braun; and the National Education Association (which, predictably, wants a vastly larger program than any that stands a chance of passing...