| “Centaur critics, led by Wernher von Braun, mounted a campaign to cancel the program,” wrote Dawson & Bowles. As they and others explain it, von Braun preferred large, heavy structures and conventional kerosene fuel – a conservative philosophy quite unlike Ehricke’s edgy lightweight structure and high energy LH2 fuel for heavier payload capability. While critics called Centaur “the fat tank…” |