When German aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun joined theU.S. military and space programs after World War II, hequickly became one of the foremost scientists credited withdeveloping the ballistic missile, the first American satelliteand the enormous Saturn V rocket that enabled man to reach themoon. Von Braun's bold predictions that we would explore Marsand build a space station have become reality. But how is itthat von Braun--whose contemporaries included such scientificgeniuses as Nikola Tesla, Robert Oppenheimer, and AlbertEinstein--was so far ahead of everyone when it came torocketry? Did he have secret information collected by the Naziparty during WWII--or access to advanced technology recoveredfrom the alleged UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947? Oris it possible that the greatest rocket scientist the world hasever known found his inspiration not on our world, butanother?
