Wernher von Braun

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Born: 1912-03-22 · Wirsitz, Germany [now Wyrzysk, Poland]

Werner Von Braun was a rocket pioneer and became the world's leading rocket scientist. Starting his career as a Nazi SS officer in the 1930s, and leading the team that developed what became the V-2 rocket, over 3,000 of which were eventually launched at England and Belgium during the later years of …