Article: A Russian Wernher Von Braun
The Washington Post;  January 23, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... Russian rocket engines. The United States, surprisingly, hasn ... the Soviet Union to the United States. Had America failed at ... rocket scientists - Wernher von Braun, among others - the United States would have been at a serious ...

Article: Von Braun, Wernher 1912-1977
American Decades;      700+ words ... ... x2014; far enough to reach the United States. Von Braun feared he would be captured by ... skilled German scientists. In the United States the branches of the military ... medium-range missiles, and von Braun's efforts during the first ...

Article: Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun
Army;  September 1, 2006 ;     478 words ... ... Born in Germany, von Braun spent almost his ... England, then in the United States under the employment ... anyone familiar with von Braun and the Army's ... Army that brought von Braun and his team to the United States and got him started ...

Article: Von Braun, Wernher
U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ... ... collapse, von Braun evacuated his ... reasoned that the United States was the nation ... 15, 1955, von Braun and forty of ... that of the United States in the 1950s ... failed, the United States turned to von Braun's group ...

Article: Wernher von Braun
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ... ... propulsion and guidance. Von Braun's team attacked the ... as a weapon of war. Von Braun had a different vision ... Germany was near collapse, von Braun evacuated his staff to ... He reasoned that the United States was the nation most likely ...

Dictionary definition: Von Braun, Werner
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military;      563 words ... ... Peenemünde, Von Braun's group took advantage ... before the end of the war Von Braun and many of his colleagues ... forces. He came to the United States to direct the army ... S. citizen in 1955. Von Braun pressed for a program ...

Article: A scrupulous new biography weighs both von Braun's ...
The Boston Globe;  September 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Soviet hands, von Braun surrendered to ... equipment to the United States. He came into ... work. He gives von Braun well-merited ... Germany and the United States. He was indispensable ... the claim made by von Braun and his defenders ...