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Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
space race
competition to explore space between USA and USSR
V-2 rocket
world's first short-range guided ballistic missile
Saturn V
American human-rated launch vehicle
Operation Paperclip
secret program of the US to bring German scientists, including former Nazis, into the US to work for the US government
Redstone Arsenal
United States Army post and census-designated place in Alabama
Hans von Ohain
German aerospace engineer (1911-1998)
Walter Dornberger
German general (1895–1980)
Alexander Lippisch
German pioneer of aerodynamics (1894-1976)
Gunter d'Alquen
Nazi propagandist (1910–1998)
PGM-11 Redstone
short-range ballistic missile
Arthur Rudolph
rocket engineer (1906-1996)
Kurt H. Debus
rocket engineer and scientist (1908–1983)

Mittelwerk
Mittelwerk (; German for "Central Works") was a German World War II factory built underground in the Kohnstein to avoid Allied bombing. It used slave labor from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp to produce V-2 ballistic missiles, V-1 flying bombs, and other weapons.
Ernst Stuhlinger
German rocket scientist (1913-2008)
Adolf Busemann
German engineer (1901–1986)
Magnus von Braun
German engineer (1919–2003)
Dieter Grau
Rocket scientist (1913-2014)

Hubertus Strughold
German scientist and perpetrator of Nazi-sponsored medical torture; participant in Operation Paperclip
Richard Vogt
German engineer and aircraft designer
Konrad Dannenberg
Rocket pioneer (1912-2009)
Eberhard Rees
German rocket scientist
Fritz Laves
German mineralogist and crystallographer (1906–1978)
Walter Schreiber
German physician and general (1893-1970)
Erich Traub
German biologist (1906–1985)
Herbert A. Wagner
Austrian aerodynamicist (1900–1982)
Max Kramer
German scientist and engineer
Leonard Reiffel
American physicist
Krafft Arnold Ehricke
German aerospace engineer (1917–1984)
Ernst R. G. Eckert
American aerospace engineer
Georg von Tiesenhausen
Baltic German–American aerospace engineer (1914-2018)
Ernst Steinhoff
rocket scientist (1908–1987)
Walter Haeussermann
German-American aerospace engineer (1914-2010)
Helmut Hölzer
German rocket engineer (1912-1996)
Willibald Jentschke
German nuclear physicist (1911-2002)
Target Intelligence Committee
TICOM (Target Intelligence Committee) was a secret Allied project formed in World War II to find and seize German intelligence assets, particularly in the field of cryptology and signals intelligence.
P. O. Box 1142
former secret American military intelligence facility

Georg Rickhey
German military engineer
Bernhard Tessmann
German rocket scientist (1912-1998)
Werner Dahm
early spaceflight scientist of the Peenemünde Future Projects Office
Fritz Mueller
engineer from Germany
Hans Hollmann
German physicist (1899–1960)

Hans K. Ziegler
German physicist (1911-1999)
Adolf Thiel
German engineer and Rocket scientist (1915-2001)
Hans Fichtner
rocket scientist (1917–2012)
Oscar Holderer
German-American rocket scientist (1919-2015)
Kurt Lehovec
physicist (1918–2012)