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Konrad Dannenberg, 96, a German rocket scientist who was part of the Wernher von Braun team that helped put the first American astronauts on the moon, died Monday of natural causes at a Huntsville, Ala., rehabilitation center, said his wife, Jackie Dannenberg.
Dannenberg had a role in developing America’s key space rockets — the Redstone, Jupiter and Saturn V, which carried American astronauts to the moon in 1969. Once part of Hitler’s Nazi war machine, Dannenberg and von Braun team members were brought to the U.S. to compete against the Soviet Union for supremacy in space.
