wernher von braun

     

He developed the V-2 for Germany & while in Alabama, the Saturn V for the U.S.

Trivia about wernher von braun

  • "I Aim at the Stars" told the story of this German rocket scientist & his adjustments to life in the U.S.
  • Son of a baron, he led teams that developed the V-2 rocket and launched the first U.S. satellite
  • This man seen here helped America reach new heights in the 1960s
  • This German rocket engineer launched the first surface-to-surface missile December 24, 1942
  • This German developed the Saturn V rocket used on most of the Apollo missions
  • Willy Ley brought this man into the German Rocket Society, but unlike him wouldn't work with the Nazis
  • Born in Germany in 1912, he co-developed the V-2 rocket against the allies but became a U.S. citizen in 1955
  • Born in 1912, this rocketry genius joined the German Society for Space Travel around 1930
  • Born March 12, 1912, this ex-Nazi scientist was let into the U.S. under "Operation Paper Clip"
  • (Leroy Chiao reads again.) An early vision of a space station was in a 1952 Collier's magazine article by this scientist

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