| NASA Center: |
Marshall Space Flight Center |
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| Image # : |
cc-417 |
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| Date : |
1956
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Title
Officials of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Full Description
Hermann Oberth (forefront) with officials of the Army Ballistic
Missile Agency at Huntsville, Alabama in 1956.
Left to right around Oberth:
1) Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger (seated).
2) Major General H.N. Toftoy, Commanding Officer and person responsible
for "Project Paperclip," which took scientists and engineers out of
Germany after World War II to design rockets for American military
use. Many of the scientists later helped to design the Saturn V
rocket that took the Apollo 11 astronauts to the Moon.
3) Dr. Robert Lusser, a Project Paperclip engineer who returned to Germany in
1959. (Note: Lusser is incorrectly identified as Eberhard Rees in the
standard NASA caption for this photo).
4) Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director, Development Operations Division.
Keywords
Paperclip Army Ballistic Missile Agency Marshall Stuhlinger Toftoy Lusser von Braun Oberth Rees
Subject Category
Rocket Propulsion, VIPs-People at NASA-NACA, NASA-Center-Directors,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
MSFC
- Center Number:
cc-417
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2002-000038
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: DIGITAL
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84 |
9 |
Small |
JPEG |
448 |
599 |
192 |
Medium |
JPEG |
1050 |
1403 |
871 |
Large |
JPEG |
1 |
2806 |
2,638 |
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