The album The Last Days of Pompeii is about rocket scientist Wernher von Braun traveling back to what volcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy?
The Last Days of Pompeii (album) The Last Days of Pompeii is the debut studio album by the American alternative rock band Nova Mob, released on February 22, 1991 by Rough Trade. The album was remixed and reissued by Con d’Or on January 11 2011 with bonus tracks and new album cover art. It is a concept album about rocket scientist Wernher von Braun escaping the end of World War II by time-travelling back to Pompeii and the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
Heinz-Hermann Koelle Heinz-Hermann Koelle (born 22 July 1925 Danzig, died 20 February 2011 in Berlin, Germany, 85 years old) was an aeronautical engineer who made the preliminary designs on the rocket that would emerge as the Saturn I. Closely associated with Wernher von Braun's team at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA), he was a member of the launch crew on Explorer 1 and later directed the Marshall Space Flight Center's involvement in Project Apollo. In 1965, he accepted the Chair of Space Technology at the Technical University of Berlin.