Von Braun designed the first US satellite launcher (Jupiter rocket) in 1958. Followed by the Saturn V rocket that put the first men on the moon. Von Braun would further develop the Saturn V, and his team built the Saturn V-D that tripled the payload into space, then made the ships reuseable. And he worked adapting the NERVA (nuclear rockets) to deep space crafts for the first American manned missions to the other planets. Wernher von Braun received the 1975 National Medal of Science.