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Rothe San Antonio Calibration provides precision calibration, repair and measurement services. It has been sold to a California firm that runs a global network of laboratories.
Elisabeth von Trapp reflects on the 60th anniversary of the famous movie musical about her family.
On topic of SpaceX, the conference room outside of security at their Hawthorne building at least used to be labeled “Werner von Braun Conference Room”.
NASA flight director, Gene Kranz, now 91 years old, is seen posing with his lifetime achievement award from the American Astronautical Society at his restored console in Apollo mission control.
NASA flight director, Gene Kranz, now 91 years old, is seen posing with his lifetime achievement award from the American Astronautical Society at his restored console in Apollo mission control.
After all, immigrants have been coming to build rockets in Florida since Werner Von Braun quit the Nazi rocket program as the Third Reich collapsed and chose to surrender to us rather than the ...
Professionally, Bill worked under rocket scientist Werner von Braun on missile and rocket research for Chrysler contributing to NASA's Apollo program.Recruited by McDonnell Douglas, Bill helped ...
We all know of America's space race, and the technology that stemmed from the second world war. What little know, and what sounds crazy to say, is much of that American rocket technology was ...
Herman Kahn's innate optimism flourished during 1970s US-Soviet détente when Kahn's Hudson Institute countered fashionable environmental catastrophism with robust techno-capitalist futurism ...
After von Braun’s visit was announced, some Ball State faculty openly opposed his invitation. Rumors began circulating of a planned protest.
The Von Braun Center has announced that a free night of rock n’ roll featuring some of the Rocket City’s local talent will be coming in for a landing next month.