Braun, Wernher von (1912-1977) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography

German-American engineer who worked on the German V2 rocket projects with Willy Ley in 1930-44. After Operation Paperclip brought von Braun, many of his coworkers, and a great deal of German rocket hardware and documentation to the United States, von Braun headed the effort to build the giant Saturn

V rocket used to launch the Apollo missions to the Moon.

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