[BlueDragon]

W.von Braun gets more credit than he perhaps deserves, since other scientists accomplished the actual heavy lifting.

My own father worked on the Titan program with a "Dr. Spratling", at Aerojet General, as one of the slide-rule 'boy wonder', and 'get me a cup of coffee' guys, to this Spratling.

It was Spratling, whom was a leading, if not THE leading science guy on that earlier program.

Saturn V's are basically five Titans wrapped together.

[Tallguy]

W.von Braun gets more credit than he perhaps deserves, since other scientists accomplished the actual heavy lifting.

Von Braun might actually agree with your assessment. He freely admitted lifting his early work from American rocket pioneer, Robert Goddard. Even Von Braun's ego had its limits.