Wernher von Braun
Date of birth: March 22nd 1912 (113 years)
Place of birth: Wirsitz, Germany [now Wyrzysk, Poland]
Werner Von Braun was a rocket pioneer and became the world's leading rocket scientist. Starting his career as a Nazi SS officer in the 1930s, and leading the team that developed what became the V-2 rocket, over 3,000 of which were eventually launched at England and Belgium during the later years of ... Read more
