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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: 95. Chapters: Early spaceflight scientists, Wernher von Braun, Herman Poto nik, Hermann Oberth, Sergei Korolev, John Whiteside Parsons, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Walter Thiel, Robert H. Goddard, Arthur C. Clarke, US space exploration history on US stamps, Arthur Rudolph, Qian Xuesen, Theodore von Karman, Space archaeology, Boris Rauschenbach, Kurt H. Debus, Werner Dahm, Magnus von Braun, Dmitry Okhotsimsky, Konrad Dannenberg, Mstislav Keldysh, Walter Haeussermann, Valentin Glushko, Yuri Kondratyuk, Friedrich Zander, Gaetano Crocco, Monument to the Conquerors of Space, Vladimir Chelomey, Eberhard Rees, George Edward Pendray, Verein fur Raumschiffahrt, Walter Riedel, Pedro Paulet, Reg Turnill, Helmut Holzer, Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov, Frank Malina, Dieter Grau, Hermann Ganswindt, Ludwig Roth, Apollo M. O. Smith, Mikhail Yangel, Georg von Tiesenhausen, Boris Chertok, Max Valier, Memorial Museum of Astronautics, Apollo 15 postage stamp incident, Conrad Haas, Walter Jacobi, Propulsion and Structural Test Facility, Oswald Lange, Cosmonauts Alley, Rudolf Nebel, Redstone Test Stand, Fritz Mueller, Soviet space exploration history on Soviet stamps, Klaus Riedel, Mikhail Tikhonravov, Valentin Rumyantsev, Ary Abramovich Sternfeld, Moongate, Prix Guzman, Vladimir Barmin. 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 ...
