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...think that there was any technical breakthrough," said U.S. Space Expert Wernher von Braun. "It does not look like the Russians used any new equipment." Von Braun was sure that Russia was still operating with the same rocket booster used in Vostok I and Vostok II, which is capable of lifting a 14,000-lb. payload. Hugh Dryden, Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration, agreed, suggesting that while the Soviet booster was capable of such propaganda space spectaculars as the twin shoot, it was far too small for moon exploration...
...even bigger booster, the Saturn C1, is not a military weapon at all but an integral part of the Apollo man-on-the-moon project. Developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala., its first stage is largely the creation of famed Wernher von Braun, who designed V-2 rockets for the Nazis in World War II. With eight H-1 (Atlas) engines bound together to produce 1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust, the Saturn C-1 has been test-flown twice from Cape Canaveral, and it worked perfectly each time. The future star...
Peenemünde South. Huntsville, Ala., headquarters of Dr. Wernher von Braun...
...Harvard Divinity School Student Association will hold a farewell reception for Paul J. Tillich, University Professor, on Thursday, June 7, from 8 to 9:30 p.m., in the Braun Room of Andover Hall, and urges all friends and students of Professor Tillich to attend...
...course will feature lectures by leading physicists Robert Jastrow and Werner von Braun, which will be supplemented by field trips to space flight installations of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...