Werner Von Braun Accomplishments

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Werner Von Braun was one of the most important rocket developers and champions of space exploration. As a youth he was influence by space exploration by reading the science fiction of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, and from the science fact writings of Hermann Oberth. He was born 1912 and died 1977, His achievements for space exploitation as head of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, was to lead the development of the Saturn V booster rocket that helped land the first men on the Moon in July 1969. He’s from Wyrzysk, Poland, he was also part of the war with Nazis and the Jews. People tend to think he was helping the Nazis slaughter millions of Jews.

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