![]() “Our charter is to continue what he began – it is a direct linear descendent of what he did.” “Von Braun started this office back in the 1960s,” says Les Johnson, technical advisor for advanced concepts at Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama and owner of a DVD copy of the original Disney series. “At the end of the 60s, the Space Task Group tried to recommend to Nixon that we need to build a space shuttle and a space station and then we’ll prepare for expeditions back to the Moon and onto Mars.” “Nasa kept trying to come back to the script,” says Neufeld. ![]() But, in the minds of some in the American space agency, this was just a diversion. Throughout the 1960s, von Braun pursued the development of the giant Saturn 5 rocket that would take men to the Moon. “When going straight to the Moon became the project he was enthused by that and didn’t necessarily adhere to this rigid shuttle, Moon, Mars scheme but for a lot of engineers at Nasa that was the logical programme for human space exploration.” “The plan was very influential in the 60s and it lived on,” Neufeld says. “He was obsessed with the Moon, that was his childhood ambition.” “What he was trying to do was lay out an architecture for how spaceflight might be possible,” explains Michael Neufeld, senior curator at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC and author of three books and numerous articles on von Braun.
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