Von Braun

Wernher Von Braun was the second of three sons born to Baron Magnus von Braun and Baroness Emmy von Quistorp. He was born on March 23, 1912 in Wirsitz, Posen. Wernher was always a visionary, and when he was ten years old he decided his goal in life would be to "help turn the wheel of time." His interests led him to do many things in his early life including composing several pieces of music and recycling …

…and research applications. In the 1950s, von Braun and his team were transferred to Alabama, his home for the next twenty years. NASA was established in July 1958. One day later, the 50th Redstone rocket was fired off Johnson Island. Two years later NASA opened the new Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama and transferred von Braun and his development team to NASA. Dr. von Braun was the center's first Director, from July 1960 to February 1970.