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...winning the award, Whipple joins such previous recipients as Wernher Von Braun (1957), Hermann Oberth (1955), and James A. Van Allen...
...Saturn fired last week developed a thrust of 1,300,000 Ibs. Conceived in 1958 by Army Rocketeer Wernher von Braun. Saturn is a hybrid of eight 165,000-lb. engines clustered together like a bundle of cigars. As it stood on its Canaveral launching pad, the rocket towered 162 ft. high, weighed 462 tons...
Star in the West. Still, many U.S. spacemen are growing weary of this pat excuse. They prefer to blame a longstanding failure of U.S. imagination. While he was still in Germany in the early 19405, Rocket Expert Wernher von Braun realized the possibility of producing satellites and saw plainly that they would have enormous propaganda value. When he came to the U.S. in 1945, he pleaded for "an American star, rising in the west" to impress the world. U.S. space enthusiasts took up his cry, but the U.S. Government was slow to give support...
...maker's stock has risen, helped by better earnings, rumors, new flashes and promotional splashes. A month ago Lionel President John B. Medaris was scheduled to speak before the prestigious New York Society of Security Analysts, and word went around that there he would reveal that Missile Expert Wernher von Braun was joining Lionel. Next day Lionel was the second most heavily traded stock on the Ex change, jumped two points. Medaris had nothing to say about Von Braun, except to deny the rumor...
...Spaceman Wernher von Braun called the misfire "a little mishap" bravely predicted that the U.S. would still manage to orbit a manned capsule by the end of 1961. But Project Mercury's latest failure, third in a row, just about evaporated the last faint wisp of hope that the U.S. might put a man into space before Russia does...