Wernher von Braun in 1965
A leading rocket scientist and science fiction author, Wernher von Braun, may have predicted Elon Musk’s plans to conquer other planets nearly 70 years ago when he described a man named “Elon” who would rule Mars.
The New York Post reports that a report says von Braun created the character “Elon” in his 1952 science fiction novel “Project Mars,” which described a space fantasy about a mission to Mars. The leadership of the Martian government consists of 10 people, and the leader of the government is named “Elon”.
The book’s prophecy came to light a few years ago, but last week it began to circulate widely on social media.
Elon Musk is a billionaire and founder of SpaceX, a space exploration technology company. The company has developed a series of breakthroughs with its retrievable rockets, and its Falcon-9 rocket successfully sent a manned Dragon spacecraft into space in April, with four astronauts arriving at the International Space Station (ISS). on May 2, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft successfully brought another four astronauts back to Earth from the ISS.
Back in 2007, Elon Musk stated that his personal goal was to eventually enable humans to explore and colonize Mars. The structure of the plan to land on Mars was revealed one after another between 2011 and 2015.
In 2011, Musk said in an interview that he wanted to send humans to Mars within 10 to 20 years, and in late 2012, he said he envisioned a Mars colony with a population of tens of thousands of people, with colonists arriving no earlier than 2025.
Von Braun, a German-American, died in 1977. He was the chief designer of the famous V2 rocket in Nazi Germany. After World War II, the United States brought him and his design team to the United States. After moving to the United States, von Braun served as the lead designer for NASA’s Space Research and Development Program and led the design of the Apollo 4 launch vehicle Saturn V. NASA described von Braun as “unquestionably the greatest rocket scientist of all time. His greatest accomplishment was presiding over the development of Saturn 5 while serving as chief commander of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, which successfully achieved the first human landing on the moon in July 1969.”
NASA erects a bust of von Braun in honor of his accomplishments in front of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Administration Building in Huntsville, Alabama, on July 17, 2019.
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