Wernher von Braun led NASA'S development of the Saturn V rocket that took Apollo 11 to the Moon. His Nazi record was not widely known until after his death.

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Wernher von Braun, the father of American rocket science who designed the Saturn V rocket in Huntsville, Ala. was the subject of the Comedy Central television show Drunk History on its Season 3 ...

Wernher von Braun’s V-2 Rocket Although the Nazi “vengeance weapon” was a wartime failure, ... There he helped design the Saturn V (in this case, the V stood for the Roman numeral five, ...

Wernher von Braun on May 3, 1945, the day after his surrender to Allied forces. He had broken his arm in an auto accident two months before and his bones had not properly mended.

Von Braun became the center's first director, and presided over the development of the world's tallest, heaviest and most powerful rocket, the Saturn V, which lofted Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin ...

The guiding spirit behind NASA’s moon rocket, Wernher von Braun watches a Saturn 1 launch from the safety of the blockhouse in October 1961. JFK had declared for the moon just a few months earlier.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — You don’t have to go far in Huntsville or on Redstone Arsenal to see the name “von Braun”. The leader of the German rocket team, Wernher von Braun, led th… ...

The Saturn V rocket built by Werhner von Braun’s rocket team needs no more honors, but it’s getting a big one this week on America’s front yard - the National Mall in Washington. To honor ...

German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, who helped build the V-2 rocket, came to work for NASA in 1945 as part of Operation Paperclip. His job was to share his accumulated knowledge with the ...

Wernher von Braun led NASA'S development of the Saturn V rocket that took Apollo 11 to the Moon. His Nazi record was not widely known until after his death.