Von Braun, born in Wirsitz ... There he helped design the Saturn V (in this case, the V stood for the Roman numeral five, not vengeance), the rocket that launched U.S. astronauts toward the ...

the “V” variant won out. What became the Saturn grew out of a U.S. military requirement in the late 1950s for a booster big enough to launch large satellites. Wernher von Braun, who had ...

In 1950, they relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, where Wernher von Braun led the team that developed the Saturn V rocket that would later send Americans to the moon. During Huntsville's ...

Von Braun's genius idea was the Saturn V, the world's most powerful rocket. It stood 111 metres tall, and fully-fuelled, weighed about the same as 400 elephants. And in 1969, it helped land men on ...