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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 73. Chapters: Wernher von Braun, Sergei Korolev, John Whiteside Parsons, Walter Thiel, Arthur Rudolph, W adys aw Turowicz, Qian Xuesen, Muhammad Hafeez Qureshi, Kazimierz Siemienowicz, Ernst Stuhlinger, Kurt H. Debus, Walter Dornberger, Magnus von Braun, Willy Ley, Konrad Dannenberg, Alan Bond, Walter Haeussermann, Valentin Glushko, Friedrich Zander, Robert Truax, Simon Ramo, Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, Eugen Sanger, Milton Rosen, Satish Dhawan, Hellmuth Walter, Gaetano Crocco, Vladimir Chelomey, Eberhard Rees, Kerim Kerimov, Jesco von Puttkamer, Rudy Kennedy, Walter Riedel, Shafkat Chowdhury, Pedro Paulet, Krafft Arnold Ehricke, Helmut Holzer, Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov, Daniel Jubb, Frank Malina, Dieter Grau, Aleksandr Borisovich Zheleznyakov, Helmut W. Schulz, Charles Kohlhase, Ludwig Roth, Mikhail Yangel, Johannes Winkler, Boris Chertok, Helmut Grottrup, Reinhold Tiling, Adolf Thiel, Conrad Haas, Walter Jacobi, Jay F. Honeycutt, Oswald Lange, Richard G. Smith, Hans Fichtner, Ernst Steinhoff, Rudolf Nebel, Klaus Riedel, Hideo Itokawa, Irene Bredt, Bridget Landry, Roy Healy, Nikolai Alekhin, Charles Bartley. Excerpt: Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 - June 16, 1977) was a German rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany during World War II and in the United States after that. A former member of the Nazi party, commissioned Sturmbannfuhrer of the paramilitary SS and decorated Nazi war hero, von Braun would later be regarded as the preeminent rocket engineer of the 20th century in his role with the United States civilian space agency NASA. In his 20s and early 30s, von Braun was the central figure in Germany's rocket development program, responsible for the design and realization of...
