We will be forever Reminded of his accomplishments everytime we look to the sky and see the moon. Konrad Dannenberg 's leadership and vision lifted our city, our state and our country to heights did had never before been Achieved. "As mayor, and on behalf of the City of Huntsville, I'd like to express our sadness at the loss of a true pioneer. Konrad Dannenberg was honored on the occasion of his death as follows: His great dream, of the actual goal of the entire Peenemunde group Wernher von Braun was by his own admission, to experience a manned flight to Mars, no longer fulfilled.
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It is an educational institution for aerospace engineering, which is primarily intended for students and teachers. "īut even in retirement, he remained connected space and was Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Aerospace Institute of the University of Tennessee in Tullahoma.ĭannenberg was instrumental in the construction of the " Space Camp " in Huntsville. In 1973 he retired and received the " Outstanding Service Medal from NASA. He was so involved in the construction of the "moon rocket" Saturn V for the Apollo program. NASA was founded in 1958, and Dannenberg now worked for the Marshall Space Flight Center of NASA in Huntsville.ġ960 he was appointed by Brown as deputy head of development of the Saturn rocket program. Army.ĭannenberg was responsible for the procurement of missile engines for the Redstone and Jupiter intermediate-range missiles.
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In the U.S., the first task of the researchers was to develop the Redstone rocket for the U.S. on, first to Fort Bliss, Texas, later to Huntsville. On the photo you see of him with developed injection nozzle ( 18 pieces total ) of the " 25 -t - rocket stove " ( rocket engine with 25 tons of thrust).Īccording to Thiel's death by the air raid on the night of 17 to Aug(Operation Hydra ) all further developments have been stopped.ĭannenberg was Walter Riedel ( Riedel III) deputy.Īs part of the operation Overcast he moved in 1945 with Wernher von Braun and 117 other employees in the U.S. There he worked especially on the drive of the A4 rocket. In early 1940, he was brought to the Army Research Center Peenemünde, thanks to the mediation of Püllenberg to the engine team of Walter Thiel. He built from bicycle frame dieselgetriebende rocket engines.įrom 1939 to 1940 he was a soldier, only at a horse artillery unit in the Czech Republic.īefore the start of the campaign in the west, he was transferred to the German -French border. The interest for space was excited at Konrad Dannenberg in his youth by a lecture by Max Valier.Īfter graduating from the Lutheran school he studied at the Technical University of Hannover engineering and employed there, among others, drive technology.ġ931 Dannenberg member of the Society for rocket research - Hannover group ( GEFRA ) under Albert Püllenberg. and later became deputy director at NASA 's development program of the Saturn V rocket.
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In 1945, he came up with Wernher von Braun in the U.S. He was a member of Walter Thiel at the Army Research Center Peenemünde. Konrad Dannenberg (* Augin Weissenfels, Saxony province, German Reich, † Februin Huntsville (Alabama ), United States ) was a rocket pioneer.