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Von Braun, Wernher
     
Von Braun, Wernher
(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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