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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

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Wernher von Braun
Age: 65 †
Born: 1912
Born: March 23
Died: 1977
Died: June 16
Aerospace Engineer
Architect
Engineer
Inventor
Military Personnel
Non-Fiction Writer
Physicist
Rocket Scientist
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Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun
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