"...Fans of billionaire Elon Musk are now saying that a book written more than 70 years ago by the rocket scientist who helped put Huntsville on the map predicted the SpaceX and Tesla CEO becoming the leader of Mars.
A portion of the 1953 book “Mars Project” by aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, who led development of rocket technology for the Nazi party in Germany and later developed rockets in Alabama.
In the book, von Braun says that “the government of Mars consisted of ten men.”..."
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"...Wernher von Braun and a team of scientists moved to Redstone to build missiles for the Army. He later became Marshall's first director and chief architect of the Saturn V rockets that carried Americans to the moon in 1969...."
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Engineer helped astronauts reach the moon safely "...As chief of calibration at the Army Missile Defense in Huntsville, Ala., during the 1960s and early '70s, he helped make sure that the Saturn V rocket developed under Wernher von Braun at NASA's nearby Marshall Space Flight Center was safe to launch astronauts into space on several missions, including 1969's historic moon landing...."
Reference: www.heraldtribune.com .
