Definition of Werner von braun

Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23 1912 –  June 16 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States. The German scientist, who was pivotal in Germany's pre-war rocket development program and was responsible for the design and realization of the V-2 combat rocket during World War II, entered the United States at the end of the war through the then-secret Operation Paperclip. Although he had held the honorary SS rank of a Sturmbannführer, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen and worked on the American ICBM program before joining NASA, where he served as director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the United States to the Moon [1]. He is generally regarded as the father of the United States space program. Wernher von Braun received the 1975 National Medal of Science.