# Wernher von Braun

> The engineer who put Americans on the Moon built his reputation on Nazi rockets that killed thousands. His trajectory from V-2 architect to NASA director is a Cold War calculus: how much past do you trade for a future in space?

*German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912-1977)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1912-03-23
- **Died:** 1977-06-16
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Wernher von Braun joined the Nazi Party and SS to advance his rocket work, and at Peenemünde during World War II he helped design the V-2, which became the first object to cross into space on 20 June 1944. After the war, Operation Paperclip brought him and 1,600 other German engineers secretly to the United States. He developed the rockets that launched Explorer 1 in 1958, collaborated with Walt Disney on films that sold the public on space travel, and in 1960 joined NASA as director of Marshall Space Flight Center. There he became chief architect of the Saturn V, the launch vehicle that carried Apollo to the Moon. He received the National Medal of Science in 1975 and spent his final years calling for a human mission to Mars, while others noted he had never answered for what he knew at Peenemünde.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 68.3 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.1 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 28.6 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 6.7 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0902042/ (@nm0902042)

## Topics
#Developers, #Scientist, #Physics, #Web Development, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **1982** - National Aviation Hall of Fame
- **1977** - Died
- **1975** - National Medal of Science
- **1975** - Werner von Siemens Ring
- **1970** - Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- **1969** - NASA Distinguished Service Medal
- **1962** - Elliott Cresson Medal
- **1959** - Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- **1944** - Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords
- **1912** - Born

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