Von Kármán
Americannoun
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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
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
The Von Kármán Committee adopted the word “synoptic” too, but applied it to weapons.
From Salon • Apr. 27, 2013
Von Kármán used the total weight of the vehicles he considered because that information was readily available to him at the time.
From Scientific American • May 27, 2011
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