00:00 The moon landing wouldn't have been possible without the help of former Nazi scientists and engineers.

04:59 Werner von Braun, an engineer, became obsessed with space travel and dreamed of leading an expedition to the moon, but his involvement with rocket technology led him to work for the army during Hitler's rise to power.

09:33 Werner von Braun, a talented scientist, joined the Nazi party and became a leader in the rocket program, working under Hitler's regime and using concentration camp labor to build rockets for military purposes.

14:30 During World War II, Werner von Braun and his team successfully launched the V-2 rocket, a game-changing technological innovation that carried 2,000 pounds of explosives and rained down on parts of Europe, but even this couldn't save the Germans from defeat; as the war was coming to an end, both the Soviets and the Americans began gathering intel on German scientists and their innovative technologies, leading to the covert mission called Operation Paperclip.

18:51 After World War II, German scientists, including Werner von Braun, made a deal with the Americans to exchange their knowledge and documents for freedom, resulting in nearly 1,600 German scientists being brought to the United States to build up America's new arsenal of weapons and set the stage for the country's space program.

23:41 During the Cold War, the American military brought former Nazi scientists, including Werner von Braun, to the United States to work on developing ballistic missiles and eventually a space program, with von Braun advocating for space travel through magazine articles and television appearances.

28:39 The Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 led to the creation of NASA and the Apollo program, with the main objective of landing a human on the moon and bringing them back alive.

33:19 Wernher von Braun's team played a crucial role in building the Saturn V rocket that made the moon landings possible, but after the success of Apollo 11, the Apollo program was shut down and von Braun's Nazi past began to resurface, casting a shadow over his legacy.

38:16 Wernher von Braun's legacy will always be tainted by his Nazi past, serving as a cautionary tale for future scientists to be mindful of who they work for and the goals behind the programs they participate in.