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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Journey into Space | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Journey into Space | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Journey into Space | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

Biforn him stant braun of the tusked

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lollipop Chaucer | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientist Predicts Space Observatory | 3/14/1952 | See Source »

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