This IQP is an ethical study of Wernher von Braun, the Nazi engineer who headed the V-2 program and later headed the NASA Saturn V program. His life is discussed, with particular focus on the morality of his work for the Nazis, especially the use of concentration camp slave labor. In addition, the morality of the US government's decision to acquire von Braun and his group is analyzed, with a focus on the context of the decision at the beginning of the Cold War.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Crowley, Ian Francis
• Trudeau, Joshua Richard

Subject

• Culture

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121811-161339

Keyword

• Engineers--Moral and ethical aspects

Advisor

• Fehribach, Joseph D.
• Dollenmayer, David B.

Year

• 2011

Date created

• 2011-12-18

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright