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GERMAN FELLER
Doctor Werner Von Braun handshakes his way through
a crowd at the Texas Ho el in Fort
Worth, before
g V
BRAUN & ANOTHER GUY
addressing more than seven hundred members of the
Knife and Fork Club. Von Braun, one of the nation's
top space scientists, is in steady demand on the ban.
quet circuit. He says the U.S. space program is in
good shape and he discounts reports that project
two.-man
Gemini, a orbital flight, is behind schedule,
Von Braun predicts a manned Gemini flight within the
next few months and an American on the moon in the
next ten years or so, if the space program continues
to receive effective support.
Von Braun renews a ship-board friednship with Bob
Womack, of 40.16 Lakewood, who met the scientist in1947.
m Womack, asoldier stationed in Germany, came
back home on the same ship that carried Von Braun
and other scientists to the 1 Womack
was in charge of the scientists and their dependentsduring the voyage}
and Von Braun elped him
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out withCl
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: German Feller], item, February 2, 1965; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc969315/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.