After moving to the U.S in 1945 he was almost immediately put to work by the U.S army at Fort Bliss, Texas. From September 1945 to May 1950 he worked as project director, Research and Development Division Sub-office for the U.S. Army in Fort Bliss, Texas. After working at Fort Bliss for 5 years, in May 1950 he transferred work to the U.S. Army as technical director at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. There, he was assigned to the guided missile group, because of his skills in making the V-2. During his time as technical director at the Redstone Arsenal, in 1952 he was appointed as an aeronautical researcher, devolopment and design engineer under civil service status. Four years later in February 1956, he was transfered to the Army Ballistics Missile Agency (ABMA) as director of development operations division. During his time at the Army Ballistics Missile Agency, NASA was founded in 1958 and on July 1, 1960, he was transfered to NASA. At NASA Wernher was finally able to use his rockets to send people into space like he had always wanted to.
This picture shows Wernher sitting at his new desk in NASA headquarters