Von Braun, Wern‧her /vɒn ˈbraʊn $ vɑːn-, ˈveənəʳ $ ˈveər-/
(1912–77) a rocket engineer who was born in Germany and developed the V-2 flying bomb for the Nazis. After World War II he went to the US and worked for NASA on the Apollo Program to send spacecraft to the moon.

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