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He was a Fulbright and his father Chauncey helped design the Saturn V rocket with Werner Von Braun.
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Think Nikola Tesla in the 1890s or Wernher von Braun in the 1930s or Doug Engelbart in the 1960s.
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He interviewed all of the Apollo astronauts and was friends with Wernher von Braun, the architect of Nasa's moon programme.
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Huntsville, in the north, boasts some of the nation's highest technology, rippling out from the space industry that began with the arrival after the second world war of the Nazis' rocket-man, Wernher von Braun.
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"The most exciting thing I saw as a child was this vision of von Braun going to the back of the Moon, " he explains to BBC News Online, as he relaxes in his plus-fours and diamond socks in preparation for a round of golf.
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Mr. DAVID SCHWARTZ (Chief Curator, Museum of the Moving Image): What Disney did that was really important was he teamed up with the scientist Wernher von Braun, who was really the most prominent scientist of the United States and was trying to promote the idea of space travel.
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