Wernher von Braun proposal (1947 through 1950s) Wernher von Braun was the first person to make a detailed technical study of a Mars mission.

Mr. Heinz Werner, Heinz Werner GmbH

Rainer Werner Fassbinder ( 31 May 1945 10 June 1982) was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor.

Alfred Werner (12 December 1866 15 November 1919) was a Swiss chemist who was a student at ETH Zurich and a professor at the University of Zurich.

Many of you will realize that I'm ripping a bit off of the science fiction writer Vernor Vinge's notion of a technological singularity, where a number of trends accelerate and converge and come together to create, really, a shockingly new reality.

The Werner Report s ideas were too feeble to deal with the currency turmoil of the early 1970 s, and it was almost a decade before Europe produced a new response.

The impetus to the first act of European monetary integration, the 1970 Werner Report, stemmed from awareness that there were major difficulties in the fixed exchange rate system established in 1944 at the Bretton Woods conference.

More than 50 years ago, visionaries like the British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke and the German (and American) rocket engineer Wernher von Braun laid out a series of steps for the journey into space.

)In the 1956 revised vision of the Mars Project plan, published in the book The Exploration of Mars by Wernher Von Braun and Willy Ley, the size of the mission was trimmed, requiring only 400 launches to put together two ships, still carrying a winged landing vehicle.