Wernher von Braun dreamed of going to the moon. He overcame many obstacles including Hitler's Germany. He moved to the USA following WWII. He helped develop the rockets that went to the moon. He helped launch the Space Age. About the Series: Alabama Roots is a book series designed to provide reading pleasure for young people, to allow readers to better know the men and women who shaped the State of Alabama, and to fill a much-needed void of quality non-fiction for students in middle grades. This book does just that. Wernher von Braun is the biography of a man who never went to the moon, but he paved the way for Astronaut Neil Armstrong to climb down the ladder of "Eagle" and take "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. Buss Aldrin followed Armstrong and they spent three hours walking on the surface of the Moon.