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Von Braun and others leave clouded legacy
A half century after their move to Huntsville Alabama the German rocket team led by Wernher von Braun transformed a cotton field into a center of space exploration. Their legacy spans manned flight lunar landings and the space station but is clouded by V-2 production for Nazi Germany using forced labor.
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Dave Bryan
Associated Press
Huntsville
Ala
Alabama
Walter Jacobi
Wernher von Braun
United States
Michael Neufeld
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum
von Braun
Russia
Neufeld
Redstone Arsenal
Peenemuende
Mittelwerk
Harz Mountains
Germany
England
Jacobi
U.S. Army
Werner Dahm
NASA
Marshall Space Flight Center
America
Dahm
Stalin
Dannenberg
Huntsville Times
Moon
Hitler
Konrad Dannenberg
Man