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...Cape Canaveral Kennedy saw the towering, 2,800-ton service structure that will eventually house the Saturn III, the most powerful space vehicle yet off U.S. drawing boards. At the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala.. Rocket Expert Wernher von Braun gave the President a 30-second static test blast from one of the Saturn booster engines. Von Braun pointed to a huge first-stage booster (prone, but pretty impressive all the same). Said he: "This is the vehicle designed to fulfill your promise to put a man on the moon in this decade." He paused...
...think that there was any technical breakthrough," said U.S. Space Expert Wernher von Braun. "It does not look like the Russians used any new equipment." Von Braun was sure that Russia was still operating with the same rocket booster used in Vostok I and Vostok II, which is capable of lifting a 14,000-lb. payload. Hugh Dryden, Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration, agreed, suggesting that while the Soviet booster was capable of such propaganda space spectaculars as the twin shoot, it was far too small for moon exploration...
...even bigger booster, the Saturn C1, is not a military weapon at all but an integral part of the Apollo man-on-the-moon project. Developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala., its first stage is largely the creation of famed Wernher von Braun, who designed V-2 rockets for the Nazis in World War II. With eight H-1 (Atlas) engines bound together to produce 1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust, the Saturn C-1 has been test-flown twice from Cape Canaveral, and it worked perfectly each time. The future star...
Peenemünde South. Huntsville, Ala., headquarters of Dr. Wernher von Braun...
...everything from traffic jams to supermarkets. "Europe has become more and more Americanized," he says, "so Europeans are greatly interested in how the U.S. copes with such things." Best known for his probing interviews, he has lugged his tape recorder into sessions with Leonard Bernstein, Marilyn Monroe, Reinhold Niebuhr, Wernher von Braun, a spate of politicians from Nixon to Kennedy...