Eisenhower Transfers von Braun to NASA: The Rocket Scientist Gets His Mission
President Dwight D. Eisenhower transfers Wernher von Braun and his team of German scientists from the Army to NASA, instantly accelerating American rocketry capabilities just as the space race intensifies. This move directly enables the rapid development of the Saturn V rocket, which later propels humans to the Moon within a decade.
October 21, 1959
67 years ago
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