Wernher Von Braun Research Paper

Wernher Von Braun, a German, American, aerospace engineer and space architect. He invented two of the most important rockets in the history of rockets, the V-2 and the Saturn V. Both of these rockets were very important to the development and furtherment of Missiles and Space Travel. Von Braun was born in 1912 in the Posen Province of then Germany. However after World War One this province was integrated into Poland. Early in his life, he stumbled on the book Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen by Hermann Oberth. Hermann Oberth writes: “The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.” He also writes later in the book, “To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful.” This idea inspires Wernher, and he goes on to make some of the greatest contributions to 20th
I, myself, owe to him not only the guiding-star of my life, but also my first contact with the theoretical and practical aspects of rocketry and space travel. A place of honor should be reserved in the history of science and technology for his ground-breaking contributions in the field of astronautics.”
Von Braun was integral in designing and weaponizing the V-2 and V-1 rockets for use against the allies in world war two. However he did his best work after the war, when he was brought to the United States to build almost from scratch, their missile program. Wernher Von Braun revolutionized the american rocket program, and without him we would have been years behind the soviets in missile tech and we would not have made it to the moon.
Von Braun during world war II was a member of the SS, a group of fanatic nazis dedicated to the cause. His rocket program was built at Mittelwerk, a concentration camp