• The last surviving member from the group of Wernher von Braun's s aerospace engineers is dead
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[quote] The last-known surviving member of the German engineering team that designed the rocket that took US astronauts to the Moon has died in Alabama. Oscar Holderer, who was 95, suffered a stroke last week and did not recover, his son Michael said. Mr Holderer was one of about 120 engineers who moved to the US after World War Two, bringing technology used in the German V2 rocket. They played a key role in the Saturn V rocket used in the 1969 Moon landing. The team, led by Wernher von Braun, was part of a project called Operation Paperclip that transferred technology used in Germany's V2 and other rockets to the US. Mr Holderer became a US citizen in 1955. After retiring from Nasa in 1974, he built training devices that are still in use at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville. [/quote] [url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32620119[/url]
later days, rocket man
To think that within 20 years of his hiring on, we went to the moon. He then sat there for the next 40 seeing us not make it to mars.
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