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

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

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

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

5. 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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. Jupiter Rocket
Jupiter A
Army/Navy joint effort
Jupiter C

13. Redstone
Project Mercury
M-3 failure
First American in Space

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

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

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

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

18. References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
Piszkiewicz, Dennis. Wernher von Braun: The Man Who Sold the Moon. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.