Following World War II, Wernher von Braun was secretly moved to the United States, along with about 1,600 other German scientists, engineers, and technicians, as part of Operation Paperclip. He worked for the United States Army on an intermediate-range ballistic missile program, and he developed the rockets that launched the United States' first space satellite Explorer 1 in 1958.
Here he is on Johnston Island preparing for shot TEAK and ORANGE which were multi-megaton nuclear weapons launched into space by von Braun's Redstone Missile in 1958.
1 окт 2024