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Aircraft, space and history: 100th anniversary of the birth of Wernher von Braun

Huntsville, USA - "He died the same year the project Columbia reached its final test stage"

Today March 23, 2012 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Wernher von Braun, the father of modern rocketry and the first director of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. "von Braun was a model of excellence in innovative engineering, in communicating his passion for his work and in his leadership of our historic efforts to burst the bonds of gravity and travel beyond the confines of Earth", director...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1138945
Rome, Italy, 03/23/2012 16:33
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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