Wernher Von Braun's Accomplishments

Ethan VanDusen

Mr. Jinks

English III

07 February 2023

In the life on Wernher Von Braun Wernher Von Braun was a German Rocket scientist in the early and mid 1900’s. He had many achievements in the rocket community. His main achievement was his development of the Saturn V booster rocket that helped land the first men on the Moon in July 1969. He shaped and impacted the modern day rockets. Wernher Von braun set the standards for the modern day rockets, but what discoveries and impacts did he have that made rockets to what we know it as today? Before he became a genius is the rocket industry he had to have picked up his love for it somewhere. Wernher von Braun was born in 1912 in Wirsitz, Germany (now part of Poland). His fascination for rockets

Oberth was trying to prove that liquid fuels, instead of solids, offered the best approach to powering rockets for space vehicles.” ( Robin Williams) Oberth also had two assistants that were Rudolf Nedel and Klaus Riedel. “In August 1930, Oberth's little rocket engine succeeded in producing a thrust of seven kilograms for 90 seconds, burning gasoline and liquid oxygen.” (Robin Williams) Oberth and his assiastants would work on that together. Oberth would have to go back to ROmania to support his very large family. Von Braun interpreted his studies at the institute of Techology in Berlin. He would than transfer back to Berlin to watch and study the first public firing of Riedel rocket. In 1932 Von Braun graduated from the Berlin Institute of Technology with a Bachelors in aeronautical engineering. He also gained his pilots license soon after graduating. “Von Braun's exposure to rocketry convinced him that the exploration of space would require far more than just applications of the current engineering technology. To this end he enrolled as a graduate student at the University of Berlin and gained his Ph.D. in physics in 1934.”( Robin Williams) He had a thesis about liquid rocket propulsion. “Von Braun wanted to analyze some of the puzzling phenomena that take place in a

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