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All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

Wernher von Braun

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