of rockets, they thus decided to go back to the future - using time machines. The Saturn V was the brainchild of Wernher von Braun, theGerman scientist whose bright genius gave the U.S. its finest line of rockets - and whose dark genius gave Hitler the V2 missile that rained terror on London. Von Braun had, in turn, drawn insights from American rocket pioneer Robert Goddard, and Goddard built ...
California Institute of Technology for the Army; and the Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville, Alabama, where Wernher von Braun’s team of engineers was developing large rockets. Within months of its creation, NASA began to conduct space missions, and over the last 50 years has undertaken spectacular programs in human spaceflight, robotic spaceflight, and aeronautics research. In ...