von Braun

[von broun, fuhn broun]

noun

1. Braun, Wernher von.

von Braun

/ vɒn ˈbraʊn, fɒn /

noun

1. Wernher (ˈvɛrnər). 1912–77, US rocket engineer, born in Germany, where he designed the V-2 missile used in World War II. In the US he worked on the Apollo project

Example Sentences

In early 1960s America, the Reich rules by technology, building a hydrogen bomb for a genocidal attack on Africa and using Wernher von Braun’s rockets to colonize the solar system.

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“There’s that pivotal moment in Season 1 when she does not understand how Wernher von Braun could have chosen his work over human lives,” Schmidt says of Margo.

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One of the earliest popularizations of orbiting space habitats and Mars colonies came from the engineer Wernher von Braun, whose personal history should make us cautious about space visionaries.

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These included people who had strong influence in the space program, including the Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center Wernher von Braun and the director of Project Apollo, Air Force General Sam Phillips.

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Elon Musk is the most morally dubious rocket pioneer since Wernher von Braun.

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