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It seems that von Braun's desk was not always as tidy as it is today: On my first visit (before I discovered tripods and had to rely on my point & shoot camera's pop-up flash), his desk was a good deal more cluttered. It seems that several of the same items were on it as are today (e.g., it appears that the Chronology and copy of The Mars Project, as well as the slide rule, were already on his desk at that time), but it appears that the Mars globe has been demoted from his desk to a bookshelf.

Perhaps newer museum staff members thought that von Braun would have approved of the "clean desk" management fad?