Oswald Lange

Oswald Hermann Lange ( born June 1, 1912 in Haynau, Silesia, † February 20, 2000 in Bluffton, South Carolina ) was a German -American rocket scientist and director of the Saturn V project.

Life

Oswald went to Long Haynau to school. He reached a graduate degree at the University of Breslau in mathematics, physics and chemistry and a doctorate in engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. Long worked at the Heinrich Hertz Institute as an assistant in the Electronic Research.

Career

From 1940 to 1945 he worked at the Army Research Center Peenemünde and helped develop the A4 and at the waterfall rocket with. He was one of the members of the team for the rocket development by Wernher von Braun. After the war he worked at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in 1947 and emigrated in 1954 to the USA. In 1959, he got U.S. citizenship and was from 1959 to 1963 Head of Projects Saturn I, Saturn IB and Saturn V. Until his retirement Lange was a senior scientist of the Nike program and various security and missile defense systems.

In 1977, he left NASA and retired.