Oswald Lange

Wernher von Braun and co-workers in Huntsville, Alabama, in the fall of 1959 . Visible on the photograph: Ernst Stuhlinger , Friedrich von Saurma , Fritz Müller , Hermann Weidner , Erich W. Neubert (partially covered), Willy Mrazek , Karl Heimburg , Arthur Rudolph , Otto Hoberg , von Braun, Oswald Lange , General Bruce Medaris , Helmut Hölzer , Hans Maus , Ernst Geissler , Hans Hüter and George Constan .

Oswald Hermann Lange (born June 1, 1912 in Haynau , Silesia , † February 20, 2000 in Bluffton , South Carolina ) was a German-American aerospace engineer and head of the Saturn V project.

Life

Oswald Lange went to school in Haynau . He obtained a diploma in mathematics, physics and chemistry from the University of Breslau and a doctorate in engineering from the TU Berlin . For a long time worked at the Heinrich Hertz Institute as an assistant in electronic research.

Career

From 1940 to 1945 he worked at the Peenemünde Army Research Center and helped develop the A4 and the waterfall rocket. He was one of the members of the team for rocket development around Wernher von Braun . After the war he worked for the Royal Aircraft Establishment in 1947 and emigrated to the USA in 1954 . In 1959 he became a US citizen and was head of the Saturn I , Saturn IB and Saturn V projects from 1959 to 1963 . Until his retirement, Lange was a senior scientist in the Nike program and various security and missile defense systems.

In 1977 he left NASA and retired.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Oswald Hermann Lange, 87, died Feb. 20 . In: Savannah Morning News , February 22, 2000. Archived from the original on September 15, 2012. Retrieved on August 27, 2013.
^ Roger E. Bilstein (1999) Stages to Saturn , Diane Publishing.
^ ^A ^b Ernst Stuhlinger , Ordway, FI, McCall, JC, and Bucher, GC (1963) Aeronautical Engineering and Science , McGraw-Hill.

personal data
SURNAME	Lange, Oswald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lange, Oswald Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American aerospace engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Haynau , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	February 20, 2000
Place of death	Bluffton , South Carolina

[obit-1] Oswald Hermann Lange, 87, died Feb. 20 . In: Savannah Morning News , February 22, 2000. Archived from the original on September 15, 2012. Retrieved on August 27, 2013.

[bilstein_1999-2] Roger E. Bilstein (1999) Stages to Saturn , Diane Publishing.

[aes_1963-3] A ^b Ernst Stuhlinger , Ordway, FI, McCall, JC, and Bucher, GC (1963) Aeronautical Engineering and Science , McGraw-Hill.