Dr Wernher von Braun, the chief architect of the Apollo mission’s Saturn V rocket, pictured in 1964 at the George C Marshall Space Flight Centre in Huntsville, Alabama. Before becoming director of the centre, Von Braun was director of the development operation division of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency where he and his team were tapped to build the rocket that would beat the Russians to the moon. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images/Taschen)
