Word: wernher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoulder-shruggers had a point. The Explorer was a predictable accomplishment-and by no means the last one the U.S. would demand. "We are competing only in spirit with Sputnik so far," said Explorer's Rocket Scientist Wernher von Braun, "not in hardware...
...clock one night last week the Explorer was ready. Lox vapors (liquid oxygen) waved in the floodlights' glow. In Central Control, scientific and technical missilemen tended their network of instruments. In the Pentagon at that moment, Army Secretary Wilber Brucker and the Jupiter's top Scientist Wernher von Braun joined a score of other military and civilian officials in the Army's telecommunications room, seated themselves at a table before two huge screens, one enlarging teletype messages from the Cape, the other carrying Pentagon messages back to the site. Elaborately, Von Braun lectured the attending brass...
...satellite terms, the history began on June 25, 1954 in Room 1803 of the T-3 Building in Washington's Office of Naval Research. Among the service and civilian scientists present to discuss the possibility of firing a satellite into outer space was Dr. Wernher von Braun, father of the German V-2 turned U.S. Army missile expert. Von Braun assured the group that the Redstone missile, already developed at the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. and successfully fired at Cape Canaveral in 1953, could be souped up to put a 5-lb. satellite into outer...
...small share of defense contracts, there seemed to be no conflict of interests). Before taking over, McElroy characteristically set out on his tour of military establishments. On the evening of Oct. 4 he was at dinner at the Army's Huntsville, Ala. ballistic missile center when Rocket Scientist Wernher Von Braun was called from the table. Von Braun returned, face flushed, with the news that Sputnik I was in outer space. Even then the Secretary-to-be sensed that the Defense job would never quite be the same again...
...Wernher Von Braun and his entire missile team in Alabama...