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Peace messages from Kummersdorf - Gut |
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Kummersdorf-Gut -
Chronology |
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1903
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Konstantin Ziolkowski starts to write scientific essays about
rocket planes |
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1923
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Hermann Oberth
publishes the book "The rocket to the space
of planets" with a vision of manned space flight
on the basis
of
rockets with fluid drives |
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1926
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Robert Goddard
starts
successful
a rocket with fluid drives |
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1927 |
Johannes Winkler
founds the "Club
of
astronautics"
in Breslau |
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1928 |
Max Valier
experiments,
apart from other things,
with rocket-powered sledges,
rail-cars
and
automobiles
on the Avus. Fritz von Opel starts for the first time a glider
with 6
powder-rockets
on the
airport
Frankfurt/Main |
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1929 |
the
"Club of astronautics"
moves to Berlin and Hermann Oberth becomes the new president.
Important members are: Rudolf Nebel, Klaus Riedel, Rolf Engel,
the 17-jear-old Wernher von Braun, Hans Bermüller, Paul
Ehrmayer, Helmut Zoike and Kurt Hainisch |
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1929 |
Dr.-Ing. Karl Emil Becker,
lieutenant-colonel of the army of the
Third
Reich,
gets the order to test the use of
rocket propulsions
from
the
minister
of the German army of the
Third
Reich
Groener |
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1929 |
Members of the
"Club of astronautics" starts in
cooperation
with the
industry
("Junkers" in Dessau,
"Heylandt
industry
gas" in Berlin Britz) to
experiment
with
fluid
drives |
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1930 |
Dipl.-Ing.
Walter R. Dornberger
colonel
of the army of the
Third
Reich,
assistant of the ballistic department of the
weapon department of the army,
gets in touch to the several inventor groups and
supports
them
partly
in spring 1930 |
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1930 |
The student Eugen Sänger studies rocket technology and the
space and develops
ideas,
how to reach the outer space with a rocket plane |
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1930 |
Rudolf Nebel
inaugurates the
"rocket-airport
Berlin" in Tegel in September 1930 |
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1932 |
Construction
of the rocket research institute
"Kummersdorf-West"
on the
area of the
artillery
range Kummersdorf in January |
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1932 |
The rocket specialists around Rudolf Nebel demonstrate without
success in presence of Becker, von Braun and Dornberger their
4m long rocket with fluid drive
"Mirak II"
in Kummersdorf.
After that the
weapon department of the army gives up the
sponsorship
of the rocket airport Berlin. |
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1932 |
Wernher von Braun
gets engaged
by the
weapon department of the army after an introduction to Becker. His
works start in October 1932 in Kummersdorf |
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1933 |
The first successful propulsion tests in January with a thrust
of 140 kg by Wernher v. Braun in Kummersdorf,
development
of the
aggregate 1 (A1),
production
of 3 test
samples |
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1934 |
Promotion Wernher v. Braun on the tests with rocket propulsion
on the test stands of Kummersdorf in April 1934 |
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Hitler
visits Kummersdorf for the first time |
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1934 |
The aggregate 2 (A2) with a
thrust
of 300kg, previously often tested in Kummersdorf, is
successfully tested on the isle Borkum in December 1934. Two
gyroscope-stabilized
rockets (called Max and Moritz) with a
300kg alcohol/liquid
oxygen-
drive reach
each
a
height
of 2200m |
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1935 |
Start of the development of the
aggregate 3 (A3)
as a test rocket with a thrust of 1,5
tons
on the research institute Kummersdorf-West |
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1935 |
In the year 1935 Wernher von Braun presents a conception of a
"rocket research institute" to the army and the air force with
the leading idea of consolidation. The presentation of the
conception
count for
the hour of birth of Peenemünde |
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1935 |
Test of an
additive
rocket propulsion for
propeller
planes
(He 112) in Kummersdorf |
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1936 |
The
erection
of the
research
institution
of the army
Peenemünde is
decided
in April 1936 |
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1936 |
The
engineer
Dr. Walter Thiel starts his work in Kummersdorf, additional
extension of the test stand in Kummerdorf. Start of the
development
of the A4-
propulsion
with a
thrust of 25 tons |
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1937 |
Aircraft captain Erich Warsitz flies in summer 1937 in
Neuhardenberg a Heinkel He 112 with rocket propulsion, which
was developed in Kummersdorf |
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1937 |
Test sample
of the rocket A3 are started
unsuccessful
on the Oie in Greifswald. |
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1938 |
The series oft tests with the aggregate 5 (A5) starts. The A5
reaches heights up to 12000m. The A5 is a modified A3 with
better technical properties and an
improved control.
Altogether
more than 100 test flights were done. |
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1939 |
The first rocket plane in the world, a He 176, flies in
Peenemünde with a new propulsion |
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1939 |
Conference about rocket propulsions with participation of the
universities
in Kummersdorf |
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1940 |
The first burn test with a 25-tons-propulsion in Peenemünde
1940. First
plan
of a
two-stage
Intercontinental-rocket |
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1940 |
Erster Entwurf einer zweistufigen
Interkontinental-Rakete |
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1942 |
First and successful realization of a test shooting with
rockets from a
submerged submarine |
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1942 |
First
successful start of an A4
after 12 years of rocket development. The
A4-aggregate reaches a height of
more than
80 km and
starts
the
conquest
of the outer space |
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