By Sarah Ismond And Michelle Aragon Wernher von Braun By Sarah Ismond And Michelle Aragon

The Early Years Becomes interested in the universe on the day of his confirmation in the Lutheran church His first experience with rockets

Education Sent to boarding school First learns of Hermann Oberth’s, “The Rocket into Interplanetary Space” Receives his Ph.D. in physics

World War II Becomes a civilian of the German Army Develops the V-2 rocket Surrenders to US Army

Life in the US Brought to Fort Bliss to work for the US Army Writes “The Mars Project” Returns to Germany to marry his cousin

Colliers Magazine “Crossing the Last Frontier” Stresses the importance of US military superiority

Colliers continued Man on the Moon “The Journey” “Exploration of the Moon”

Colliers continued The Baby Space Station “First Step in the Conquest of Space”

A-Series Rockets The A-1 The A-2 continued support from military. Size, failed success in the army. The A-2 continued support from military. The A-3 larger, more powerful. The A-4 October 3, 1942; liquid oxygen/alcohol fueled.

V-2 Rocket Vengeance 2 Attacks on London and Paris Unorthodox testing

V-2 Rocket V-2 at White Sands The Bumper America’s “firsts”

Jupiter Rocket Jupiter A Army/Navy joint effort Jupiter C

Redstone Project Mercury M-3 failure First American in Space

Atlas America’s first man in orbit The Atlas-Agena rocket Agena’s role in unmanned lunar missions

Titan II Two-stage, liquid fueled Role in project Gemini Power of the Titan rocket

Saturn Rockets Saturn 1 S-1 S-IV Successful test flights Saturn IB Powerful second stage objectives

Saturn V Manned moon missions 3 stages Speed Role in Apollo program

References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/index.html http://www1.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/coltech.html Piszkiewicz, Dennis. Wernher von Braun: The Man Who Sold the Moon. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.