As the Soviet Army closed in on the German rocket base in Peenemünde, the leader of the V-2 team, Wernher von Braun, decided he’d rather be captured by Americans than by Soviets. He and his ...

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 ...

"The Saturn V has taken on this sort of legendary ... 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.

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 became an advocate for space exploration during the 1950s. He eventually became part of NASA, where he became the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the super booster that ...

A former Nazi party member, von Braun developed the rocket that launched United States’ first space satellite Explorer 1. He was also key to developing the Saturn V launch vehicle which enabled ...