Word: wernher
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...Germany successfully launches the V-2, a surface-to-surface missile developed with the help of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun...
...Homer Hickam Jr., a former engineer at NASA who grew up in a small West Virginia coal town in the late '50s hoping to pursue a career in rocketry. This was against the wishes of his father, who in the movie says things like, "Quit wastin' time worryin' about Wernher von Braun," and "By golly, you'd find out [about life in the mines] soon enough...
...retrograde, at least from a moral and theological point of view. As the American space program began in the '50s, rockets routinely exploded on the launch pad and collapsed into their own ruins like defunct Las Vegas casinos. The nation's leading rocketmeister was the boy wonder of Peenemunde, Wernher von Braun, inventor of Hitler's Vengeance Rocket, the V-2. (I Aim at the Stars was the title of Von Braun's memoir; comedian Mort Sahl's suggested subtitle was "But Sometimes I Hit London...
...electrical engineer who helped lead America into space; on a train traveling from Washington to New York City. Porter oversaw the first U.S. satellite launch in 1958, a project that had its seeds in a perilous 1945 trip he made to Germany to recruit pioneering rocket scientists including Wernher von Braun...
...taught Greek, literary theory and contemporary culture at the University of the Andes from 1976 to 1982. Students remember her as a brilliant scholar and a dedicated teacher. - During those years, Rosario hobnobbed with some of the region's greatest writers, among them Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Gretel Wernher, dean of the social-sciences department, characterizes Rosario's student years as "disciplined and responsible." Those qualities would be essential to helping Rosario and Ames hide their espionage activities in the years to come -- especially since Ames, by one colleague's account, "wasn't a man who paid...