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...vogue probably grew out of two great technical achievements of World War II. Nuclear fission convinced the public that "science can do anything." The German V-2 rocket proved that a man-made vehicle can climb briefly into space. The head of the V-2 project, Dr. Wernher von Braun, is still only 40 and is the major prophet and hero (or wild propagandist, some scientists suspect) of space travel. As a boy, Dr. von Braun wanted to go to the moon. He still does...
American Star. The cost of the satellite station ($4 billion) Von Braun considers reasonable. The cost could be spread over ten years or more and would hardly be missed by a nation already spending $50 billion a year on its defense. Nor would it drain the U.S. of qualified technical men. There are plenty of them around, but they are "working on iceboxes." He has letters from a number of topflight engineers and scientists who will work for the Government only if employed on something as exciting as rockets headed for space...
...march toward space can start, Von Braun suggests, without adopting the full space station program. Even slight extensions of present techniques could set a small, unmanned missile circling round an orbit just outside the atmosphere...
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Other scientists in the Collier's project are Dr. Wernber von Braun, German rocket expert and present U.S. Army guided missiles chief: Dr. Joseph Kaplan, professor of Physics at U.C.L.A.: Heins Haber, of the Air Force's department of space medicine; and Willy Ley, a founder of the pre-war German Rocket Society...