Word: wernher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind Army's pressagentry lay some hard facts: 1) NASA takeover would break up Spaceman Wernher von Braun's dedicated Redstone team, which produced the dependable Jupiter-C and the first U.S. satellite, scatter experts into private industry; 2) Redstone works 85% on military, nonspace projects, and NASA is not allowed to make military decisions; 3) operating Redstone would cost more than NASA's total $301 million budget in overhead and equipment...
...space spokesman, Leonid Sedov. He said no more. Other astronauts concluded from what he said that he meant Russia will try to orbit a man in a Sputnik by spring. An American will achieve the same stunt within five years, said the U.S. Army's Wernher von Braun, "and most likely sooner...
...opposed federal aid to education, e.g., the National Association of Manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce. Among this session's most emphatic backers of federal aid legislation have been Marion Folsom, outgoing Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; Detlev Bronk, president of the National Academy of Sciences; Missileman Wernher von Braun; and the National Education Association (which, predictably, wants a vastly larger program than any that stands a chance of passing...
Missileman Wernher von Broun, 46, who next year undergoes the accolade normally bestowed on wealthy songwriters, dead Presidents and western gun toters-a movie based on his life-had a cheery hello in St. Louis (see EDUCATION) for an old acquaintance: Richard Fein, a sergeant in the U.S. Army squad to which the rocket expert surrendered in Germany in 1945. "You look different," said Fein. Patting his middle, Banquet Circuit Victim von Braun gamely cracked: "I'm losing the battle of the bulge...
...Wernher von Braun, space and missile scientist Sc.D...