2.5 Arrest and release by the Nazi regime.Von Braun is widely seen as either the "father of space travel", "father of rocket science" or "father of the American lunar program". In 1967, von Braun was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, and in 1975, he received the National Medal of Science. In 1960, his group was assimilated into NASA, where he served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V super heavy-lift launch vehicle that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon.
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He worked with Walt Disney on a series of films, which popularized the idea of human space travel in the US and beyond between 19. He worked for the United States Army on an intermediate-range ballistic missile program, and he developed the rockets that launched the United States' first space satellite Explorer 1 in 1958. Following the war, he was secretly moved to the United States, along with about 1,600 other German scientists, engineers, and technicians, as part of Operation Paperclip. He helped design and co-developed the V-2 rocket at Peenemünde during World War II. Īs a young man, von Braun worked in Nazi Germany's rocket development program. He was a member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS, as well as the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany and a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the United States. They're very much around.Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (23 March 1912 – 16 June 1977) was a German-American aerospace engineer and space architect. While he gets reminders from his enemies in the shape of fingers lopped off of his partner, Parker begins to hit all the mob places, from a restaurant, to a brewery, garage, casino in what is called a ""little boom-boom."", A lot, really, for all those readers on the take. “Butcher's moon, blood red, brings Parker back to the small town where he'd left $73,000 behind in an amusement park. Terry Teachout, author of About Last Night "The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived.Out of print for years and years, Butcher's Moon is the ultimate Parker novel, best read as an installment in the series as a whole but comprehensible and wholly satisfying on its own." He was gone.”įeaturing a new introduction by Westlake’s close friend and writing partner, Lawrence Block, this classic Parker adventures deserve a place of honor on any crime fan’s bookshelf. More than thirty-five years later, Butcher's Moon still packs a punch: keep your calendar clear when you pick it up, because once you open it you won't want to do anything but read until the last shot is fired. After its publication in 1974, Donald Westlake said, “Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. It feels like the Parker novel to end all Parker novels, and for nearly twenty-five years that’s what it was. Back in the corrupt town where he lost his money, and nearly his life, in Slayground, Parker assembles a stunning cast of characters from throughout his career for one gigantic, blowout job: starting-and finishing-a gang war. The sixteenth Parker novel, Butcher’s Moon is more than twice as long most of the master heister’s adventures, and absolutely jammed with the action, violence, and nerve-jangling tension readers have come to expect.
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