Your Correction is indeed right...but on the other hand...


Oppenheimer Funds, was behind the project, the men your talking about, were the mouth-peices to the DOD....

Von Braun developed the B-2 buzz bomb for the germans, he was made a technical advisor to Nasa in 1950..

Von Braun's designs were paramount in the creation of the Manhattan Project..

"Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) | Born in Wirsitz in eastern Germany (now Poland) and worked at Peenemünde developing the V2 rockets that struck at Britain in 1944-45. One of the first true “rocket scientists,” he and about 120 other German scientists were brought to the U.S. to work on rocket systems. The U.S. space program was greatly speeded up by their work, culminating in the Saturn V rocket that sent Americans to the moon on the Apollo mission in 1969, when von Braun was the head of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama."

http://www.german-way.com/famous.html source

He and Nikola Tesla made a very famous bet, on whether or not the reaction could be stopped...

Theres a difference between engineering a project, and being its official mouth-peice...