Wernher von Braun (Space Race Didn't End)

German-American rocket pioneer. Von Braun was educated at the Zurich and Berlin Institutes of Technology. In 1932 he started working on rocket designs, and became the technical head of the German Peenemunde research centre in 1938. He was responsible for the development of the V-2 rocket. At the end of the war, von Braun surrendered to the Ally Forces and became a leading figure in the American space program. He designed the first US satellite launcher (Jupiter rocket) in 1958. Followed by Wernher von Braun received the 1975 National Medal of Science.