SpaceX boss Elon Musk gets ever closer to his dream of establishing the first human colony on the Red Planet.Wernher von Braun had a lifelong passion for space travel and was recruited by the Nazis in the early 1930s to lead their rocket weaponry program.
He was instrumental in the develop of the V2 – one of Hitler’s so-called “revenge weapons”. The V2, the first ballistic missile, was the first artificial man-made object to travel into space.Speaking about the V2 after the war, he stressed that he had worked on the missile program as part of his overall dream of sending a man into space.
In a biographical film about von Braun, the actor playing the rocket pioneer says "I aim at the stars, but sometimes I hit London."At the end of World War.
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