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Started by Mugwump, January 07, 2013, 02:08:10 PM

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Jon

?Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ?Wow! What a Ride!? ~ Hunter S. Thompson

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Jon

?Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ?Wow! What a Ride!? ~ Hunter S. Thompson

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Jon

?Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ?Wow! What a Ride!? ~ Hunter S. Thompson

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Jon

?Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ?Wow! What a Ride!? ~ Hunter S. Thompson

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Mugwump

65 YEARS AGO ? On July 24, 1950, we had the first ever rocket launch at Cape Canaveral: Bumper 8 was an ambitious two-stage rocket program that topped a V-2 missile base with a WAC Corporal rocket. The upper stage was able to reach then-record altitudes of almost 400 km, which is higher than even modern Space Shuttles fly.



Jon

?Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ?Wow! What a Ride!? ~ Hunter S. Thompson

Mugwump

Jon

?Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ?Wow! What a Ride!? ~ Hunter S. Thompson

BallAquatics

Quote from: Mugwump on July 30, 2015, 06:42:59 AM
65 YEARS AGO ? On July 24, 1950, we had the first ever rocket launch at Cape Canaveral: Bumper 8 was an ambitious two-stage rocket program that topped a V-2 missile base with a WAC Corporal rocket. The upper stage was able to reach then-record altitudes of almost 400 km, which is higher than even modern Space Shuttles fly.

Yep, without Wernher von Braun we'd probably still be trying to get to the moon  LOL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

Dennis

Mugwump

Quote from: BallAquatics on July 30, 2015, 07:28:53 AM
Quote from: Mugwump on July 30, 2015, 06:42:59 AM
65 YEARS AGO ? On July 24, 1950, we had the first ever rocket launch at Cape Canaveral: Bumper 8 was an ambitious two-stage rocket program that topped a V-2 missile base with a WAC Corporal rocket. The upper stage was able to reach then-record altitudes of almost 400 km, which is higher than even modern Space Shuttles fly.

Yep, without Wernher von Braun we'd probably still be trying to get to the moon  LOL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

Dennis


Actually he needed more help than is told.....but it was his premise from the German program that got things going
Jon

?Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ?Wow! What a Ride!? ~ Hunter S. Thompson

BallAquatics

Quote from: Mugwump on July 30, 2015, 07:44:13 AM
Actually he needed more help than is told.....but it was his premise from the German program that got things going

I always heard, he was the MAN.....

According to one NASA source, he is, "without doubt, the greatest rocket scientist in history".
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/vonBraun/

NASA has called him the "Father of Rocket Science".

Dennis

Mugwump

Quote from: BallAquatics on July 30, 2015, 09:41:28 AM
Quote from: Mugwump on July 30, 2015, 07:44:13 AM
Actually he needed more help than is told.....but it was his premise from the German program that got things going

I always heard, he was the MAN.....

According to one NASA source, he is, "without doubt, the greatest rocket scientist in history".
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/vonBraun/

NASA has called him the "Father of Rocket Science".

Dennis

Agreed.....but without the "team" that helped him out......he would have been treading water, there were awhole bunch of scientist that came with him, and some before.....


    Andreas Alexandrakis
    Rudi Beichel [4]
    Wernher von Braun, Director, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama from July 1, 1960 to January 27, 1970
    Werner Dahm [5]
    Konrad Dannenberg
    Kurt H. Debus
    Ernst R. G. Eckert
    Krafft Arnold Ehricke
    Ernst Geissler
    Dieter Grau
    Walter H?ussermann
    Karl Heimburg
    Otto Hirschler[6]
    Helmut Hoelzer
    Hans Hueter
    Wilhelm Jungert
    Georg ("George") Emil Knausenberger[citation needed]
    Heinz-Hermann Koelle
    Hubert E. Kroh[citation needed]
    Hermann H. Kurzweg [7]
    Hans Maus
    Fritz Mueller [8]
    Willy Mrazek
    Erich W. Neubert
    Hans R. Palaoro
    Theodor A. Poppel
    Eberhard Rees
    Gerhard Reisig [9]
    Georg Rickhey[10]
    Werner Rosinski [11]
    Ludwig Roth
    Arthur Rudolph
    Harry Ruppe
    Friedrich von Saurma
    August Schulze
    Walter Schwidetzky*[12]
    Ernst Stuhlinger
    Bernhard Tessmann
    Adolf Thiel
    Albert Zeiler
    Theodor Karl Otto Vowe
    Georg von Tiesenhausen
    Albin Wittmann
    Helmut Zoike
    Hans Hosenthien, Director of Flight Dynamics, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama

Jon

?Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ?Wow! What a Ride!? ~ Hunter S. Thompson

Mugwump

Jon

?Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ?Wow! What a Ride!? ~ Hunter S. Thompson

BallAquatics


Mugwump

Jon

?Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ?Wow! What a Ride!? ~ Hunter S. Thompson