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Von Kármán

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[von kahr-mahn, -muhn] / vɒn ˈkɑr mɑn, -mən /

noun

  1. Theodore, 1881–1963, U.S. scientist and aeronautical engineer, born in Hungary.


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The spacecraft landed in the Von Kármán crater in January, marking the first time a probe has ever visited the Moon’s far side.

From Nature ● May 14, 2019

It landed in the Von Kármán, a flat feature about 110 miles wide that sits inside a larger basin near the moon’s south pole.

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2019

The spacecraft’s purported landing locale is Von Kármán, a lunar impact crater situated within an even larger impact crater called South Pole-Aitken basin on the lunar farside.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 21, 2018

When Von Kármán and others founded JPL in 1944 to develop rocket technology, Qian was given a security clearance and brought on to work on classified weapons research.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 14, 2018

Battle: earth Known simply as the Von Kármán Committee, the new group included the chief scientific advisor of each national defense organization in the United States, Britain, Canada, France, and West Germany.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2013

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