Von Braun NASA HQ demolished today. Reminds you of WTC7, doesn't it?
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🤔💭 What were they hiding? 😲💡
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I didn't know they had the decency to preserve his office. Thanks for letting me know. Design work is always done in office spaces. Fabrication work is always done in machine shops, and assembly work in larger spaces. The Saturn V first stage was assembled at the Michoud facility in New Orleans and barged to the Cape for vehicle integration.
If I recall correctly, Von Braun's team from Peenemunde numbered about 300 staff, all of whom he knew individually as to talents and capabilities. He was like the conductor of a vast orchestra, and he knew exactly who to put in what place for a given purpose. That was the genius of his technical leadership method. He also emphasized the distribution of organizational level progress reports (this in the days well before e-mail distribution lists).
I can only envy the sense of accomplishment that he must have felt when men set foot on the Moon, a goal he had been popularizing for several decades.
Yep all true. You can see his “supposed” office recreation and read about project Paperclip at the Space and Rocket Center Museum.
I would think the recreation would be authentic. No reason to think otherwise. It was Operation Paperclip. A good history is "The Rocket Team" (2008) by Ordway & Sharpe.