Dr. Wernher von Braun served as Marshall Space Flight Center's first director from July 1, 1960 until January 27, 1970, when he was appointed NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Plarning.

The Von Braun space station is designed to be a vacation destination and aims to feature some artificial gravity on board. (Image credit: The Gateway Foundation) Societal concerns.

Wernher von Braun's archive of signed technical drawings, schematics, orbital diagrams, and mathematical calculations related to his efforts to sell an ambitious space program to the American ...

Von Braun later became director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, developing the behemoth Saturn V rocket, which 50 years ago this week carried Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon ...

And, realistically, unlike in von Braun’s day any deep space exploration is likely to be international in nature – involving the US, Europe, Russia, Japan, Canada and maybe even China and India.

The exhibit, "100 Years of Von Braun: His American Journey," opened last October at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. (The Huntsville Times/Dave Dieter) ...

In the Collier’s series, von Braun insisted that an orbiting space station was a critical first step for space exploration. The spoked-wheel-shaped station, which later inspired the one in ...

Von Braun is not the first luxury hotel proposal. Orion Span’s Aurora Station, which can accommodate six customers, might be able to accept guests as early as 2022.

Wernher von Braun (in suit) with German officers in 1941. Bundesarchiv. Michael Neufeld, who chairs the Space History Division at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, recently spoke ...

It was Wernher von Braun who popularized the idea as the space age kicked into gear in the 1950s. A Nazi rocket scientist and engineer who defected to America in 1945, von Braun went on to be a ...

NASA is currently planning to finally send humans back to the lunar surface by 2024. It’s an incredibly ambitious and optimistic timeline, and there are … ...

Dr. Wernher von Braun’s daughter challenged a hall of astronauts, engineers, government officials and business leaders in the Rocket City of Huntsville, Ala., on Tuesday to keep exploring space ...