Wernher von Braun
1912–1977 · Person
The engineer of both the V-2 and the Saturn V: SS officer turned NASA icon, the moral bargain at the heart of the Moon landing.
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More from Spaceflight
- Apollo 8 orbits the Moon (1968)
- Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket (1926)
- First Space Shuttle flight (1981)
- V-2: the first rocket to reach space (1942)
- Apollo 17: the last Moon landing (1972)
- Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation (1903)
- First spacewalk (1965)
- Mir space station (1986)
Around 1912
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)