Word: braun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hornberger said that the decision on what action to take will be made at a meeting of the Harvard Divinity School Community, scheduled for 10 a.m. today in the Braun Room at Andover Hall. Proposals for reorganizing the Divinity School will also be discussed at the meeting...
Faculty, administration, and students in the Divinity School met again yesterday in a continuing discussion of the strike issues. They expressed satisfaction with relations within the school itself. An open meeting at 9:30 a.m. today in the Braun Room will discuss whether the Divinity School will continue in the strike and the legitimacy of the ad hoc group to make such a decision...
Meeting for Faculty only. Explanation of University Hall demands. Andover Hall Braun Room...
...Sure that he had the answer, Houbolt attended meetings of NASA's moonshot planning group to promote the lunar-orbit-rendezvous (LOR) scheme. His reception was cool. "Your figures lie," shouted one excitable member of the group. "I don't believe a word of it." Wernher von Braun, present at the same meeting, dourly shook his head at Houbolt's proposal and said, "No, that's no good." Recalls Christopher Kraft, director of NASA's manned-flight operations: "When some people first heard of Houbolt's idea, they thought he was nuts...
Embarrassed Silence. One of the hardest to convince was Wernher von Braun. But when he was finally converted to the lunar-orbit-rendezvous technique, he became a formidable advocate. During a visit to Huntsville, President Kennedy stood in embarrassed silence while Von Braun argued heatedly with Presidential Science Adviser Jerome Wiesner, the last important holdout against LOR. Pressed for a final decision, Kennedy overruled Wiesner in October 1962 and gave NASA permission to proceed with the design and construction of a lunar module...