Wernher von Braun A German, he was the forerunner of rocket/(v2) research in Nazi Germany. Later, he migrated to the United States and became the Head of Rocket and Space Technology there. Rather than an aerospace engineer, he is called a space architect because the Saturn V rocket that brought man to the moon is…
Believing a computer with four kilobytes of RAM, 79 kilobytes of ROM memory capacity, his wife, Jane, and their children stare at a rental boat in the distance as her husband, Neil Armstrong, jumps on a SATURN V rocket to touch the moon. Taken by Ralph Morse
A rocket – ??? m high, about 36 m tall – weighs 2.8 million kilograms, including fuel. Capacity to carry 130 tons of material in Earth’s orbit. Ability to carry up to 50 tons of material to the moon. Remember the shrimp movie was running here. The rocket that landed the man on the moon…
