Word: braun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie based on his life-had a cheery hello in St. Louis (see EDUCATION) for an old acquaintance: Richard Fein, a sergeant in the U.S. Army squad to which the rocket expert surrendered in Germany in 1945. "You look different," said Fein. Patting his middle, Banquet Circuit Victim von Braun gamely cracked: "I'm losing the battle of the bulge...
Wernher von Braun, space and missile scientist Sc.D...
...category of "accomplished," Army and Air Force are racing to be first to try the next logical step into space: a shot at the moon. By later summer the Army will fire from Cape Canaveral a Jupiter-C or hopped-up Jupiter that Army Spaceman Wernher von Braun believes will hit the moon. Less optimistic Army missileers expect their missile will either graze the moon-and message back valuable readings on gases around it-or make a lunar orbit. But the Air Force will probably be able to try an orbiting moonshot first. Ready for launching within a matter...
...even offers a relaxing bit of science fiction ("The liquid blonde girl came toward him, smiling . . ."). The slick-paper Space Journal is flawed by wooden pictures, text that sometimes strays too far ahead of or behind the layman, and an overexposure of Huntsville's Spaceman Wernher von Braun. But it already shows improvement. For future numbers it has lined up articles from such experts as Air Force Balloonist Lt. Col. David Simons and Dr. Eugen Sanger. director of West Germany's Institute of Jet Propulsion Physics in Stuttgart...
...Spencer ("Billy") Isbell decided he could raise some cash for the local Rocket City Astronomical Association, Inc., by publishing a space magazine for laymen. Editor Isbell, 32, who had no publishing experience brought in ex-Newsman (Montgomery Advertiser) Ralph E. Jennings, 34 sometime ghost writer for Rocketeer von Braun. Working in off-hours, the two started one of the most unscientific countdowns in magazine launching. Isbell and Jennings simply guessed that 50? a copy was a fair price, decided that $200 was plenty high enough for a page...