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Rocket science
While he was working on the first American
rockets, von Braun came up with some
ambitious plans for space exploration.
He devised a huge manned orbiting space
station and figured out ways of mounting
expeditions to the Moon and even Mars.
He later worked as an adviser to Walt
Disney, who was making TV shows
about space travel.

Lunar landing Eventually it became clear that von Braun’s
Von Braun’s big success was the colossal
Saturn V “superbooster” that carried the
Grounded
Moon missions of the late 1960s. Much
V
bigger than any previous rocket, it had the
Saturn rocket was going to be replaced by
power to carry a heavy load into Earth orbit
the space shuttle, which is not suitable for
and beyond. Von Braun’s dream became
missions beyond Earth orbit. Von Braun’s
a reality in 1969 when his rocket launched
hopes for more expeditions to the Moon and
Apollo 11 on its pioneer mission to land
planets were shattered, and in 1972, he stopped
men on the Moon. Altogether there were
working for the American space program. Soon
six Moon landings—all using the Saturn V.
after this he became ill, dying in 1977. Yet he
had achieved his main ambition of sending
astronauts into space—and to the Moon.
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