Famous Rocket Scientist Dies

Nasa Obit  German rocket scientist Konrad Dannenberg a member of the Wernher von Braun team that helped put man on the moon has died at a Huntsville rehabilitation center.
by The Associated Press
Published: Tue, February 17, 2009 - 10:12 am CST Last Updated: Tue, February 17, 2009 - 10:20 am CST
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - German rocket scientist Konrad Dannenberg, a member of the Wernher von Braun team that helped put man on the moon, has died at a Huntsville rehabilitation center. He was 96.
His wife said he died Monday of natural causes.
Dannenberg had a role in developing the Redstone, Jupiter and
Saturn rockets. The Saturn was the one that put the first American
astronaut on the moon.
With Dannenberg's death, only a half dozen of the original 118
German scientists who came to Huntsville in 1950 with von Braun are
living.
His wife, Jackie Dannenberg, said a public memorial for
Dannenberg will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Davidson Center at
the Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Photo Courtesy: NASA
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“Rocket Scientist”? What ever happened to “Aerospace Engineer” or “Aerospace Physicist”?

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