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.

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Space-Struck Resident Wernher von Braun —centennial of his birth is March 23 — came to rest locally. Wernher von Braun's grave in Ivy Hill Cemetery. Thursday, March 22, 2012 ...

Maria von Braun, widow of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and a prominent figure in America's early space program, died Jan. 20 at her home in Alexandria. She was 96. Born Maria von Quistorp in ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Maria von Braun, widow of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and a prominent figure in America's early space program, died Jan. 20 at her home in Alexandria.