Today is the Centennial of Wernher von Braun's birth:
March 23, 1912 - March 23, 2012
von Braun's first job with Hermann Oberth in 1930 was to fundraise for the Verein für Raumschiffahrt; and he did this via flacking displays on interplanetary rockets in a Berlin department store, eight hours a day of telling Berlin housewives how an interplanetary rocket would cost 7,000 marks ($1,700 USD), and take a year to build. 
"Forty years later, I realize how little one billion dollars will buy and how little you can build in one year."
-von Braun
One of his other promotional pushes was "I bet you that the first man to walk on the Moon is alive today somewhere on this Earth!"
At the time, Neil Armstrong was literally a newborn infant in Ohio.
Now, naturally; Huntsville, Alabama remembers the man who put them on the map; who turned them from a decaying US Army Arsenal surrounded by rednecks on farm tractors, to a center of high technology and a major NASA center.
So, there's going to be a ceremony today for his birthday at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama in the new building that houses their restored Saturn V:
B-Day Party
Course, it sold out pretty fast.
BTW; the exhibit "100 Years of von Braun: His American Journey" is on display at USRC until May 2012; then it will travel overseas -- Madrid and Munich are mentioned as possible landing sites.
Among the items on display is his desktop planning calendar for...July 1969.
If you can't make it to Alabama, you can try for Washington DC as von Braun lies at Section T, Plot 29, Site 5, of Ivy Hill Cemetery, off King Street in Alexandria, Virginia.
Or in more specific terms, the turn off to Ivy Hill is at:
38°49'0.66"N 77° 4'27.45"W
or
2823 King Street Alexandria, Virginia 22302-4012
And the Specific Location is:
