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Article: Rocket Pioneers.(Wernher von Braun, Bernhard Tessmann and Karl Heimburg)
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- Soldiers Magazine
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- October 1, 2008
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ROCKET Pioneers Wernher von Braun, Bernhard Tessmann and Karl Heimburg built early U.S. military rockets at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., home of the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command and the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command in April 1950.
Their stories, first reported in Soldiers magazine in 1989, recap the beginning of the U.S. Army's rocket program, born of war and today preventing war, and they trace one man's dream of space exploration from World War II Germany to America's continuing space program.
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LEGEND has it that in 1924, when he was 12, Wernher von Braun strapped skyrockets to his wagon, ...