Former German scientist who became director of the Geo. C. Marshall Space Flight Center in 1960
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Marshall Space Flight Center George C ... - Encyclopedia of Alabama  Dec 12, 2014 ... Saturn V George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has been the heart of the ... On July 1, 1960, less than two years after the establishment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), ABMA became a field ... NASA, with German rocket expert Wernher von Braun as its first director.
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Konrad Dannenberg - Wikipedia  Konrad Dannenberg (August 5, 1912  February 16, 2009) was a German-American rocket ... Under Walter Thiel's guidance, he became a rocket propulsion specialist. ... 1942 to witness the launch of the first man-made object to reach outer space, ... In 1960, Dannenberg joined NASA's newly established Marshall Space...
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Von Braun moves to NASA - Oct 21, 1959 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Von Braun moves to NASA on Oct 21, 1959. ... because of their former allegiance to Nazi Germany, but it soon became apparent that ... Von Braun, however, did not really go anywhere; NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center was ... In 1960, he was named the Marshall Center's first director.
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Marshall Space Flight Center - Wikipedia  Todd May, Center Director. Parent agency, NASA. Website, Marshall Space Flight Center. The Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. The largest NASA center, MSFC's first mission was developing the Saturn .... The Center was named in honor of General of the Army George C. Marshall,...
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Historical Facts - MSFC History Office - NASA  Two years later, Von Braun became director of NASA's new George C. Marshall Space Flight ... The Marshall Space Flight Center was activated on July 1, 1960, with the ... The Center was named in honor of General George C. Marshall, the Army ... The first genuine scientific payloads launched by Saturn vehicles, and the...
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Remembering the Challenger Crew | NASA  Space Shuttle Challenger and its seven-member crew were lost Jan. ... data relay satellite and Sally Ride became the first woman in space (STS-7). .... Center Director Bob Cabana, a former space shuttle commander, ... who went on to be selected by NASA as a mission specialist in January 1998. ...... March 23, 2008...
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Donald Glaser, Nobel Winner in Physics, Dies at 86 - The New York ...  Mar 4, 2013 ... Donald A. Glaser, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for ... called the bubble chamber to trace the paths of subatomic particles, died on ... made it possible for him to prove that it couldn't work, Dr. Glaser ... first liquid he used in the bubble chamber, the invention for which he won the Nobel Prize.
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This Month in Physics History - American Physical Society  This led to his work with J.M. Nuttall to formulate the Geiger-Nuttall Rule in 1912, ... one of his doctoral students, Walther Muller, on improving his original Geiger counter ... Geiger-Muller counter could detect many different kinds of ionizing radiation. ... But reports differ as to whether he helped or rejected his beleaguered...
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Ernst David Bergmann - Wikipedia  Ernst David Bergmann was an Israeli nuclear scientist and chemist. He is often considered the ... of defense on July 15, 1951, and director of research of the Division of Research and Infrastructure of the Ministry of Defense in early 1952.
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PDF of Fission text - American Institute of Physics  Otto Hahn of Germany-Nobel Prize winner famous for his discovery of ... Can atoms be split apart? Does each .... Leading the pack were two German chemists, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann. ... how we got to the concept of fission, but I remember Lise Meitner ..... If there were enough of these, then the long-sought-for key.
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Free Flashcards about GENERAL SCIENCE - StudyStack  IN 1928 PHYSICIST WALTHER MULLER HELPED THIS MAN IMPROVE HIS RADIATION DETECTOR, HANS GEIGER. MACHINE USED TO MEASURE...
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John M. Grunsfeld - Wikipedia  John Mace Grunsfeld (born October 10, 1958) is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five Space Shuttle flights and has served as NASA Chief ... Grunsfeld was initially detailed to the Astronaut Office Mission Development Branch and was assigned as the lead for portable computers for use...
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Donald A. Glaser - Wikipedia  Donald Arthur Glaser (September 21, 1926  February 28, 2013) was an American physicist, neurobiologist, and the winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the bubble chamber used in subatomic particle physics. ... His interest in particle physics led him to work with Nobel laureate Carl David Anderson...
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J. Robert Oppenheimer - Wikipedia  Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904  February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. ... As a teacher and promoter of science, he is remembered as a founding ... After World War II, he became director of the Institute for Advanced Study in...
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When Wally Schrira Said, "Go to Hell" - TIME  May 4, 2007 ... One of the original seven astronauts, who died this week at 84, was a ... had ever told Kraft to go to hell, and the fact is, Schirra didn't tell him ... What he did do was tell Deke Slayton, the head of the astronaut corps, and he knew Slayton ... in space, orbiting the Earth in his tiny Mercury spacecraft in 1962.
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V2ROCKET.COM - Wernher von Braun  German-born American rocket scientist and space architect who served both ... as the man who "launched the greatest adventure of all, a journey to the Moon" But, ... writer and spaceflight promoter Willy Ley, and rocket experimenters Rudolf ... VfR days joined him and started work on what would be called the A1 rocket.
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Rockets and People Creating a Rocket Industry - NASA  played key roles in almost every major milestone of the Soviet missile and space pro- ... tory in a series of five articles published in Izvestiya in early 1992 on the German ..... his life story after his return from Germany to the Soviet Union in 1946. ...... branches of the defense industry (including the rocket industry). ...... Page 77...
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Free Flashcards about SCIENTISTS - StudyStack  THIS GERMAN SCIENTIST WHOSE NAME IS A UNIT OF FREQUENCY, WAS THE FIRST TO SEND .... THE NAME OF THIS PROJECT MERCURY FLIGHT DIRECTOR SOUNDS LIKE A FAMOUS BRAND OF POWERBOAT, CHRIS KRAFT.
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Human Space Flight: A Record of Achievement, 1961-1998 ...  Finally, in May 1961, Shepard became the first American in space. .... Space Center in 1973) outside Houston, Texas, took over the role of Mission Control. ..... astrophysics, man/systems studies, Comet Kohoutek observations (Skylab 4 only),...
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Johnson Space Center - Wikipedia  The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center, where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted. It was renamed in honor of the late U.S. president and Texas native, Lyndon .... On February 19, 1973, after Johnson's death, President Richard Nixon...
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Rocket Man - The New Yorker  Oct 22, 2007 ... Magnus von Braun, the rocketeer's father, eventually compared his son to Columbus. ... the First World War acted as press secretary to the German chancellor. .... a movie based, with more than usual looseness, on his life story. ... Throughout his book, Neufeld refuses to use the term rocket scientist, not...