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... I, Britain was still a global power. Canada was independent but continued to be perceived by many, both at home and abroad, as part of the British Empire. During World War II ... been heard in Westminster; so not surprisingly the Canadian delegation was met with some enthusiasm by the British and Australian scientists. Canada might offer not only financial support, but also engineering ...

... American science fiction publisher, and Frank B. Eason, President of the Science Correspondence Club, were both made honorary VfR members; other American members were Pendray, David Lasser, and C.P. Mason ... well as an industrialist in aluminum, Hugo A. Hückel, who had been keenly involved in aviation from pre-World War I times then by the 1920s became an enthusiast in the development ...

... Junkers was not able to prolong Winkler's contract. Another was that Hückel believed that “a combined effort of both groups (the Raketenflugplatz and the Winkler teams), using mostly the same ... characteristically took full credit for it. ref 14 German Rocket Society - Verein für Raumschiffahrt by Frank H. Winter - Part 7 '''Continue to Part Seven''' German Rocket Society - Verein für ...

... ropes,” (according to Ley) and pulleys, the overall firing system described at some length by Ley in both his book, ''Rockets, Missiles'' and on pages 60-61 and 63 of part two ... men struggled along.” Hückel made it known he could no longer donate any money and Ley was forced to go on the lecture circuit to raise funds. By the end of the ... Vice-President; Riedel was named the “Technical Chief” of the Raketenflugplatz; while Engineers Hugo A. Hückel and Wurm were made Board members. ref 16 As early as October 1931, von Braun ...

... (Pirquet, Hückel, etc.), p. 48. - - ''' Media:1928_4_rakete.pdf DIE RAKETE, 15 April 1928: ''' - Telegram, Valier to Winkler, 11 April 1928, about “first rocket car” by Opel at Russelheim, driven by ... 75-76. - “Critic’s Corner --- Do We Need a Critic's Corner” by H. Oberth, pp. 76-79. - Ads, for both Valier and Winkler lectures, p. 80. - - ''' Media:1929_7_rakete. ...

... the growth of the Society. (One important and consistent early donor, for example, was Hugo Hückel, the then wealthy manufacturer of men's hats who afterward became Winkler's financial supporter ... received an autographed photo of Valier; those who gathered five new members received autographed books by both Valier and Ley, and so on. ref 3 . In the same month (August 1927), Prof ...

Johann Wolfgang Goethe was one of the co-founders of the Gesellschaft für Weltraumforschung (GfW). He studied ...

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... not yet adequately recorded when Fox spoke. Consequently, the public presentations by Fox and Stehling were a curious mix of both the highest optimism about the rocket’s future as a potential ... Goddard notwithstanding. In his interview, Stehling relates that his small rocket was propelled by methane and oxygen—both of which must have been in gaseous form—which means that it was fairly ...

... are compatible with existing earth-based communications, uses common hardware with them and is both expandable and upgraded by nature. '''Navigation ''' Whereas nautical navigation often uses the stars to determine ship and ... spacesuit. Space suits exist today. They were derived initially from suits worn by high altitude aviators and were evolved by both the Russian and U.S. space programs for use for a few ...

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