Rocket Scientist

Question 1

von Braun:

Answer 1

-German born in 1912, inspired by science fiction and science fact (Oberth)

1932-develops ballistic missiles for the german army.
(Non-military rocket tests were banned under nazi regime)

*****Began work on the A-series of rockets, most notably the V2 rocket, which was the first to demonstrate the use of gyroscopes to stabilise large rockets.
(Rockets were used to attack london and built with slave labour in WW2, von braun wanted to focus on space travel)

At the climax of the war surrendered to US and worked on ballistic missiles for the US army.

Assimilated into nasa in 1960, became chief architect of the saturn V superbooster that propelled the apollo missions to the moon.
(Space race-enormous amount of resources and a team of scientists supplied by US)