Wernher von Braun

"Fun fact; before he built rockets for the Nazis, the idealistic Wernher von Braun dreamed of space travel, he star gazed. Do you know what he said when the first V2 hit London? ‘The rocket performed perfectly, it just landed on the wrong planet."

- Maya Hansen to Tony Stark

Wernher von Braun was one of the top scientists of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Biography
During World War II, Wernher von Braun was one of the top scientists of Nazi Germany. He and his team developed the V2 rockets which the Nazis used to bomb London. After the war, von Braun and many of his colleagues were recruited to work for the United States of America in Operation Paperclip.