How Operation Paperclip helped fuel the space race In the 1950s and 1960s, the American space program accelerated as the U.S. and Soviet Union vied to put a man on the moon.

This jump-started the Soviet programme, just as the Americans had done with Werner von Braun and his group, who moved to America under Operation Paperclip. advertisement.

NASA finally stopped honoring a Nazi scientist. Why did it take so long? Kurt H. Debus was the first director of the Kennedy Space Center — and a former member of the SS ...

Von Braun and his team were held and debriefed in a fairly comfortable castle in Kransberg and then recruited under a program that came to be called Operation Paperclip.

Why It Matters: The U.S. hired several German scientists for the development of its space program including Wernher von Braun after World War 2 as part of Operation Paperclip, a secret United ...

Wernher von Braun: The Rocket Pioneer Perhaps the most famous figure to emerge from Operation Paperclip was Wernher von Braun, a German aerospace engineer and the chief architect of the V-2 rocket.

Sources: “Germany’s V-2 Rocket” by Gregory P. Kennedy, “Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War” by Michael J. Neufeld, “Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that ...

The V-2 was the brainchild of Dr. Wernher von Braun, a German scientist and member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS. His work established many rocket technology advancements that ultimately ...

When World War II ended, von Braun and other members of his team surrendered to the U.S. They were brought to Texas as part of a CIA operation called Project Paperclip , where they continued to ...

In the one controlled by the USSR, a series of institutions were founded (Nordhausen Institute, Berlin Institute) to take over the unfinished work of German brains, with special attention to ...