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    Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (US: /ˌvɜːrnər vɒn ˈbraʊn/ VUR-nər von BROWN, German: [ˌvɛʁnheːɐ̯ fɔn ˈbʁaʊ̯n]; 23 March 1912 – 16 June 1977)...
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    brother of Sigismund and Wernher von Braun. Von Braun was born in Greifswald, Pomerania, to Magnus Freiherr von Braun and Emmy von Quistorp. After completing...
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    pioneering rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. Magnus von Braun was born at his family's manor of Neucken, an estate the von Brauns had owned since 1803, near...
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  • Margrit Cecile von Braun was born on May 8th, 1952 in Huntsville, Alabama to Wernher Von Braun and Maria Luise Von Quistorp. Von Braun was the middle...
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  • Project Mars: A Technical Tale (category Wernher von Braun)
    fiction novel by German-American rocket physicist, Wernher von Braun (1912–1977). It was written by von Braun in German in 1949 and entitled Marsprojekt. Henry...
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    even suggested it be placed in a geostationary orbit. In the 1950s, Wernher von Braun and Willy Ley, writing in Colliers Magazine, updated the idea, in...
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    Operation Paperclip (category Wernher von Braun)
    industrial processes. These recruits included notable figures such as Wernher von Braun, a leading scientist in rocket technology, and were instrumental in...
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  • Von Braun Ferry Rocket was a concept design for a shuttle spacecraft that was developed by Wernher von Braun in a seminal series of early-1950s Collier's...
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    space required the development of larger ballistic missiles such as Wernher von Braun's Aggregat-4 (A-4), which became known as the Vergeltungswaffe 2 (V-2)...
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  • The von Braun Interceptor was a VTOL rocket-powered interceptor designed by Wernher von Braun. This aircraft would have used the technology Von Braun had...
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