IMAGE 0_99\25.Lbm,Rocket expert Wernher Von Braun (second from right) with other members of the army rocket team at Huntsville, Alabama, in 1956. In the foreground is the legendary Hermann Oberth.
IMAGE 100_199\133.Lbm,After the successful launch of the first US satellite, Explorer 1, on January 31, 1958, key members of the project triumphantly hold aloft a model of the satellite. They are (from the left): William Pickering, James van Allen and Wernher von Braun.
IMAGE 100_199\186.Lbm,Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, Wernher von Braun, in 1969, with his brainchild, the Saturn IB launch vehicle in the background. This was used to launch the first manned Earth-orbit Apollo mission, Apollo 7, and the Skylab astronauts.
IMAGE 800_899\808.Lbm,Dr Wernher von Braun, who worked on the V-2 in World War 2 and who afterwards masterminded the USA's space programme.
IMAGE 800_899\832.Lbm,Wernher von Braun inside the blockhouse in July 1966, observing the lift-off of a Saturn IB launch vehicle through the periscope.
IMAGE 800_899\892.Lbm,The simple gantry Wernher von Braun used at Cape Canaveral for testing early space rockets.
