Von Braun, Wern ‧ her /vɒn ˈbraʊn $ vɑːn-, ˈveənəʳ $ ˈveər-/ BrE AmE
(1912–77) a ↑ rocket engineer who was born in Germany and developed the ↑ V-2 flying bomb for the Nazis. After World War II he went to the US and worked for ↑ NASA on the ↑ Apollo Program to send spacecraft to the moon.