Wernher von Braun led the development of German rocket technology during the Second World War, work carried out under the Nazi regime that this atlas records rather than smooths over. After the war he moved to the United States, where he developed missiles for the Army and then designed the Saturn V rocket for NASA, becoming the chief architect of the vehicle that carried astronauts to the Moon. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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NationalityGerman, later naturalized American 1 Connections
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He led the development of German rocket technology in World War II, during which time he became a member of the Nazi Party and later the Allgemeine SS.
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Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (US:
Preceded By: Robert H. Goddard
Von Braun used Goddard's plans from various journals and incorporated them into the building of the Aggregat (A) series of rockets.
In Group: Rocket Engineers and Theorists, Lead sentence
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (US: VUR-nər von BROWN; German: [ˈvɛʁnheːɐ̯ fɔn ˈbʁaʊn]; 23 March 1912-16 June 1977) was a German American aerospace engineer and space architect.
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