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He was a man who after building the V2 rocket for the Germans in World War 2, surrendered his brain to the U.S and invented the rockets that took men to the moon

Von Braun was brought to the US as part of Operation Paper Clip, which brought German scientists to the US, initially without their families, as part of the beginning of the Cold War confrontation between the US and the USSR.

Engineering work for the A4 rocket (Braun's technical name for project) was finished on 1939 September 30, funding and actual construction of test engines began soon after. Testing of the rocket engine began in 1941, and, by 1942, full rocket tests began. The first successful launch of an A4 was on 1942 October 3. The name "Vergeltungswaffe" (ie, "Vengeance Weapon") for the V1 was approved in 1944 June. The first military use of a V2 was on 1944 September 8, and the Germans officially annouced their new weapon on November 8 of that year.

He marriedMaria von Quistorp and had 3 children.

He lead the design team that built rockets for Germany, the most famous ones being the V1 and V2, the "Vergeltungswaffe", a flying bomb that was extensively used against English targets.

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It would be difficult to find a better example than Wernher von Braun of the impact of a society' s choices on the moral behavior of an individual. Von Braun repeatedly visited the Dora-Mittelwerk facility in the Harz Mountains near Nordhausen, where concentration camp laborers were forced to assemble V-2 ballistic missiles under deplorable conditions that resulted in staggering mortality.(1) It has been estimated that ~20,000 workers died in V-2 production, as contrasted with the comparatively minuscule 2,541 (documented) people who died from the use of the V-2 as a weapon during World War II.(2) Von Braun acknowledged, in writing, that he personally selected workers for Mittelwerk from camp inmates at Buchenwald, who he described as in 'pitiful shape,' and he acknowledged that by 1944 he was aware that many of the slave laborers at Mittelwerk had been executed, that many others had succumbed to malnourishment and dysentery, and that the environment at Mittelwerk was "repulsive."(3) Under the proper definition of the term, von Braun was not a war criminal, per se, (4) but it is hard to argue that he was not a party to 'crimes against humanity' as defined today by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Explanatory Memorandum. (5) After immigrating to the US under the auspices of Operation Paperclip, von Braun became a US citizen and led a life that might best be described as mirroring the morality of his new masters. Aside from modest amounts of work on the exploitation of space as a (thermonuclear) weapons delivery platform, the vast body of his career was focused on efforts to colonize space. (6) Arguably, not unlike most men (consider the Milgram Experiment), von Braun was a moral chameleon who behaved as was needed to advance his own interests and survival; in his case the conquest of space. While there is evidence that he was not indifferent to the human suffering and murderous exploitation he observed at Mittelwerk (7), there is even more evidence that he was unwilling to take any action, direct or indirect, to change the status quo, or even to withdraw from participation in the Nazi rocket development program (incapacitating illness is always a viable excuse). Throughout his long career his only recorded incidents of insubordination or disobedience to orders are those that occurred when the interests of his prime directive, the exploration of space, conflicted with those of his masters. Notable examples are his disobedience of direct orders to destroy remaining V-2s as well as all drawings and documentation pertaining to the German rocketry program in the closing days of WWII, his forging of (contrary) orders to move him and his team into Allied hands (8), and his collaboration with Army General John Medaris who headed the US Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville, AL (again in direct violation of orders) to assemble and secrete a Redstone launch vehicle and its satellite payload (the Jupiter-C, a modified Redstone intercontinental ballistic missile that launched America's first satellite, the Explorer probe) in anticipation of the failure of the US Vanguard effort to orbit an 'artificial moon.'(9) In short, he appears to have been committed to the realization of space flight at any cost. This may rightly be considered as unforgivable, but it should be remembered that countless others in human history have participated in such atrocities with nothing more grandiose at stake than the prospect of a better job, a little more money, higher standing in the community, or simply because they enjoyed the power and authority that accompanied their execrably inhumane jobs. Had humanity chosen to pursue space flight, instead of war and genocide, von Braun would almost certainly have been the man for the job; and a model citizen and untarnished hero in the bargain. 1) Jaroff, Leon (2002-03-26). 'The Rocket Man's Dark Side.' Time. onhttp://www.time.com/time/columnist/jaroff/article/0,9565,220201,00.html Retrieved: 05-23-2009. 2) Neufeld, MJ. The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. The Free Press, New York, 1995. 3) "Excerpts from "Power to Explore"". MSFC History Office. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/excerpts.html. Retrieved: 05-23-2009. 4) Fourth Geneva Convention "relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War" (first adopted in 1949, based on parts of the 1907 Hague Convention IV) 5) Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, opened for signature 17 July 1998, [2002] ATS 15 (entered into force 1 July 2002), UN Doc A/CONF 183/9: 6) Neufeld, MJ. Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2007. ISBN 978-0-307-26292-9 7) 'Biography of Wernher Von Braun.' MSFC History Office. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/bio.html. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Giants/vonBraun/. Retrieved: 05-23-2009. 8) Cadbury, Deborah (2005). "Space Race". BBC Worldwide Limited. ISBN 0-00-721299-2. 9) Brzezinski, M. Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age, Times Books, New York, 2007.

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Wernher von Braun died on June 16, 1977 at the age of 65.

Dr. Wernher Von Braun helped develop the V2 rocket missile and later helped the Americans use it as a Paperclip scientist at White Sands Missile Range. HEe also was a pioneer in rocket technology.

Joseph Godard did not invent the rocket. The father of modern rocketry was Robert Goddard. He launched the first successful liquid fueled rocket March 16, 1926

According to his own memoirs, he was invited to join the SS because of his talent in rocket science. He goes on to say that a coworker convinced him that joining would be the best way to continue his research, as he would have support and funding from the government. Had he turned down the offer, he would have had to quit working as a scientist, and he was unwilling to do that.

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December 9, 1948

The address of the Von Braun Astronomical Society is: 5105 Nolen Ave SE Huntsville, AL 35801

After WW2 he developed three rockets for the US: the Redstone, the Jupiter and then Project Apollo's Saturn.

Wernher Von Braun was a German rocket scientist, he worked for the U.s.A to develop their rockets like the Saturn 5 rocket for the Apollo spacecraft.

Prof. Dr. Werner Gitt was born in Raineck, East Prussia (Germany), on 22nd of February 1937. In 1963 he enrolled at the Technical University of Hanover and in 1968 he completed his studies as Diplom-Ingenieur.

Thereafter he worked as assistant in the Institute of Control Technology at the Technical University of Aachen. Following two years of research work, he received his doctorate in engineering summa cum laude in 1971 together with the prestigious 'Borchers Medal' of the Technical University of Aachen. In the same year Werner Gitt started his career at the Federal Institute of Physics and Technology (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Braunschweig,'PTB'), Brunswick.

In 1978 he was promoted to a Director and Professor at the PTB. From 1971 to 2002 he was the Head of 'Information Technology'.

He has written numerous scientific papers in the field of information science, as well as many others concerned with mathematics and control technology. He has held lectures on related topics at numerous universities at home and abroad. Since 1984 he has been a regular guest lecturer at the State Independent Theological University of Basle, Switzerland, on the subject of 'The Bible and Science'.

He has spoken on the topic 'Faith and Science' in all five continents and in many different countries (e. g. Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Lithuania, Namibia, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, USA, White Russia). Most of these talks were strongly evangelistic.

He married his wife Marion in 1966; Carsten was born in September 1969, and Rona in April 1969.

His website offers a valuable resource for the evolution/creation controversy.

Prof. Gitt offers many of his wonderfull books about creation science in different languages on-line in pdf format - and its royalty free.

Alexander J Cartwright