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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(For more about von Braun's Nazi past, click here. After the war, von Braun, who orchestrated the surrender of 500 of his rocket scientists to Allied forces, went to work for the U.S. Army.

Today, Wernher von Braun is remembered as a rocket engineer who spent his career singlemindedly focused on enabling human spaceflight, first for Nazi Germany and then for the U.S.

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An exhibit representing Wernher von Braun’s NASA office is seen at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration on July 16, 2019, at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Wernher von Braun was a German engineer who came to the United States at the end of World War II after working for the German war effort designing the V-2 combat rocket. Despite his past and ...

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Wernher von Braun and John F. Kennedy were both sons of aristocracy, both dreaming with the moon in their eyes. One had the knowledge to get there, the other the means.

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.