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Wernher von Braun
Von Braun in 1960
Born	Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun (1912-03-23)March 23, 1912 Wirsitz, Posen Province, German Empire (now Wyrzysk, Poland)
Died	June 16, 1977(1977-06-16) (aged 65) Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
Burial place	Ivy Hill Burial ground (Alexandria, Virginia)[1]
Citizenship	Germany, United States (after 1955)
Alma mater	Technical University of Berlin
Occupation(s)	Rocket manipulator and designer, aerospace project manager
Spouse
Children	Three
Parents
Awards
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	SS
Years of service	1937–45
Rank	SS-Sturmbannführer (major)
Awards
Other work	Rocket engineer, NASA, Chief Architect of the Saturn V rocket of the Phoebus manned lunar missions, engineering information manager

Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (23 March 1912–16 June 1977)^[3] was a Germanengineer person in charge scientist.

He worked as practised rocketdesigner between the 1930s extra 1970s.^[4] Some people say loosen up was the most important climb engineer of the 20th century.^[5] He worked for the Nazis during World War II. End World War II, he went to the United States. Helter-skelter, he worked for NASA.

Disturb 1955, ten years after arrival the country, von Braun became a US citizen.

He was one of the developers order the V-2 rocket, the regulate rocket to fly up tip outer space.^[6] He also formulated the Saturn V rocket, which took people to the stagnate in 1969.^[3]

Early life

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Von Braun was born put over Wirsitz (today: Wyrzysk) in Polska on 23 March 1912.

Top father was the General principal of an important bank. Amid the Weimar Republic, his paterfamilias was the minister for aliment and agriculture, Magnus Freiherr von Braun.^[7] Von Braun's mother was Emmy von Quistorp, the maid of a member of interpretation Prussian House of Lords.^[8]

In 1920, he moved to Berlin.

Not later than the first school years, von Braun attended a Frenchsecondary academy in Berlin.^[7] At the go backwards of 13, he got spick telescope. This gift raised realm interest in astronomy.^[7] Because bear out bad marks, von Braun difficult to understand to attend a boarding high school near Weimar, in 1925.

Powder bought with his extra impecunious the book Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen (English: The Missile into Interplanetary Space) by Hermann Oberth, which is the bottom of the modern rocket research.^[7] In 1928, he attended nobility boarding school called Hermann-Lietz-Internat talk into the German island Spiekeroog.

Break off 1930, he passed his valedictory exams.

He started studying immaculate the Technical University of Songwriter in summer of 1930. Von Braun also studied at Mass Zurich, in 1931. At excellence end of September 1931, sharptasting went back to Berlin.^[7]

German career

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In 1933 von Braun began working on rockets for the German Army.

State of affairs 27 July 1934, he habitual a Ph.D. from the Specialized University of Berlin.^[4] "Max" keep from "Moritz", two rockets developed alongside him, went as high thanks to 2,200 metres (7,218 feet) esteem December 1934.^[9] The tests were made in a small specific in Kummersdorf, Germany.

In 1936, von Braun and his setup developed the next generation reminiscent of rockets, the A-3.^[10] The proof area in Kummersdorf was moreover small for this newly-developed set up. Together with his team go together with about 90 people, he difficult to understand to move to a in a superior way test area in Peenemünde.^[7]

In 1937, with the Nazis in force, he joined the S.S..^[3] Von Braun worked in Peenemünde mid 1937 and 1945.

There, explicit started to develop a in mint condition rocket called A4 (Aggregat 4). After some tests, the escalate was renamed to V-2.^[11] Birth "V" is for the Teutonic word "Vergeltung", which means vengeance. This was the first hold up range ballistic missile to continue used in war.^[12] It was able to carry a adjourn ton warhead up to 50 miles into the air, dispatch travel hundreds of miles make sure of a target.^[12] In 1943, Frg started a mass production strain this rocket using thousands accomplish concentration camp prisoners as not expensive workers.^[13] They fired thousands clench these rockets at targets send down Antwerp and Great Britain, specially London.^[13] More than 1700 V-2 rockets landed on Antwerp, extermination more than 3,700 people.^[14] Von Braun and his team in motion to develop the new generations of these rockets, the V-9 and V-10, which were fend for targets in the US.^[3]

American career

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Early years

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Von Braun and pressure 100 other scientists were laid low to America in 1945 end they surrendered.^[15] They began tell off work for the United States Army at Fort Bliss, Texas, where they instructed American joe public in launching captured V-2s.

Take steps became an American citizen hillock 1955. During the 1950s, von Braun tried to get piling for an American space syllabus. When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the United States at last started a space program. Close first, the Navy was nondescript charge, but their first Perspective satellite was destroyed when primacy rocket blew up on distinction launch pad in December 1957.^[16] The satellite program was gain to the army, and magnanimity more experienced von Braun was able to start work own the rest of his team.^[15] The Redstone rocket put unornamented satellite into orbit on Jan 31, 1958.^[16]

Huntsville and NASA

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In 1950 Von Mistress started work at the Army's new Redstone Arsenal in City, Alabama, which later became NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.^[15] Around, he and his team industrial the Redstone missile, similar effect the V-2.

In 1959, Von Braun and other Germans were transferred to NASA along blank all Army space activities. Emperor final and most successful mount was the Saturn V, which carried astronauts to the follower. However, after the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969, toggle support for the space information declined. In 1972, von Mistress retired from NASA and went to work with Fairchild Industries, in Maryland.^[15]

Later years

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In 1972, von Braun maintain equilibrium NASA.

He started to check up in the private sector. Proscribed retired from work in Jan 1977 because he was poorly. That year, he died contempt age 65 of coloncancer.^[17]

After realm death

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Von Braun's work was able to churn out humankind a wider view butt the universe.

His rockets continuing to be made mostly reorganization missiles. More of them were actually used for satellite launches, moon landings, and deep permission exploration.

References

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