Usedom Germany, 4/08
After my business trip to Berlin, I took a trip to the isle of Usedom on the Baltic coast of Germany and Poland. I chose to visit there because of the historic nature of the location. Dr. Werner Von Braun, the rocket engineer responsible for getting us to the moon did much of his early development in a location called Peenemunde while part of the German army during WWII. This location is where rocketry began and now is a museum in the location of an old East German Air Force base. It was neat reading his biography on the way to Germany and going to visit a key setting in the book and a location where history was made. I had already been to Huntsville Alabama where Dr. Von Braun did the majority of his work post WWII.