Word: wernher
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Prince & Pugilist. Drawn by the deep, the elite free divers range from Lord Louis Mountbatten and his royal nephew Prince Philip to Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson, from Russian Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo to Gary Cooper and U.S. Rocketeer Wernher von Braun...
...Saturn cluster engine, with an awesome 1,500,000 pounds of thrust, was earmarked for another $90 million in 1961 budget cash, lifting it to a fat $230 million for the year. The Saturn will shake through its first ground tests at Huntsville, Ala. in April, when Rocketeer Wernher von Braun will switch on two of its engines; later tests will step up to all eight engines. Said one Army spaceman: "That will really rock the whole state of Alabama...
...Launching of the big-thrust Saturn vehicle, now under development by the NASA team headed by ex-German Rocketeer Wernher von Braun...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2--The speeded-up U.S. space program is still not moving fast enough to catch the Soviet Union, rocket expert Wernher von Braun said today...