Daily Mail News
By LEWIS PENNOCK FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 07:43 EDT, 16 March 2024 | UPDATED: 07:46 EDT, 16 March 2024
Huntsville, Alabama, is fiercely proud of its Rocket City nickname – earned for its crucial role in America’s space race success.
The city, which transformed in the 1950s from a cotton market town to the world’s foremost hub for space travel research, is home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, which led development of the Saturn rockets that put the first man on the moon.
But there is a dark side to the story of these epic achievements: many of the men who led the groundbreaking work were Nazis – recruited through a top secret operation after the Second World War.