Jan 17 2008
From The Space Library
Warner K. Dahm, the last of Wernher von Braun’s German rocket team to retire from NASA, died at age 90 in Huntsville, Alabama. A German aerodynamics expert, Dahm had joined von Braun’s program during World War II and had later come to the United States with his colleagues to assist in developing American rocketry. He had worked at NASA first as a member of the team for Operation Paperclip in Texas and later at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Over the years, Dahm had lent his expertise to the design of the V-2 and Wasserfall anti-aircraft rockets, the Redstone rocket, the Jupiter ballistic missile, Saturn 1, Saturn 1B, the Saturn-5 rocket that flew America’s first astronauts to the Moon, Skylab, and the Space Shuttle Transportation System. In 2006, at the age of 89, he had retired from his position as Chief Aerodynamicist at Marshall. Dahm had received NASA’s Exceptional Service Medal in 2003.
Huntsville Times (AL), “Von Braun Cohort Dahm Dies,” 19 January 2008; Mike Marshall, “German Engineer Was Last of Team at NASA,” Huntsville Times (AL), 21 January 2008; John Johnson Jr., “Werner K. Dahm, 90; German Aerodynamics Expert Developed Rockets for the U.S. Army and NASA,” Los Angeles Times, 23 January 2008.
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