The first serious proposal for a human mission to Mars came in 1953, when German-American rocket scientist Wernher von Braun ... At the end of the war, von Braun surrendered to American forces.

In 1960, Columbia Pictures released a movie about NASA rocket scientist Wernher von Braun ... By the time Germany was at war for the second time in a generation, von Braun had become a member ...

Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi scientist ... the rockets at a factory in central Germany. At the end of the war, von Braun surrendered to American forces. Along with dozens of other rocket ...