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Wernher von Braun was a German rocket scientist. He was also a engineer, a space architect, and one of the leading figures in the developing of rocket technology. He did this in Germany and the United States during and after World War two. He was also a one time member of the Nazi party and a commisioned SS officer. Wernher helped the Industrial Revolution mainly because of his declaration of the first moon landing. He was one of the most important rocket developers and champions of space explorations. This took place between the 1930's and the 1970's. Wernher was involved in the German Ordinance Department. When he was involved and working at the German Ordinance Department he helped develop the V-2 rocket. Which was a ballistic missile that the Nazi's used in World War two. At the end of World War two, Wernher led more than one hundred of his special rocket team members to surrender to the Allied powers. In September of 1945, Braun came to the United States with a contract with the United States Ordanance Corps as a part of Operation Paperclip. He was known as Doctor Wernher von Braun. Von Braun helped create the V-2 rocket that took the first people to the moon. He made space travel popular in the 1950's. In the 1960's it turned into a reality. His full name is Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun. He was born in 1912. Wernher was named by Life magaziene "one of the 100 most important Americans". They also said that he "launched the greatest adventure of all, a trip to the moon". When he was a little kid he was starting to mess around with rockets and explosives. One of his little experiments was strapping a cluster of solid rocket motors to a wagon. He then shot it down the crowded street. The crowd that was on the street were not as happy with him as he was with his new amusement. All in all Wernher's contribution to the Industrial revolution was the road to the rocket.

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Sites I used: www.V2ROCKET.COM http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/index.html http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAbraun.htm www.YouTube.com