In 1960, von Braun became the first director of NASA's new Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, but began his career in the German army as one of the Nazi scientists.

The other day I ran into Dr. Wernher von Braun – in a very strange and unlikely place. Unless you are a boomer or early Gen Xer you may not even have heard about him. And maybe it’s because he ...

Wernher von Braun, a former member of the SS who rebranded himself as an all-American hero in the 1960s - SuperStock / Alamy Stock Photo Nasa, Nazis and the Space Race (Channel 4) is a strong, if ...

The author notes the inherent dichotomy in von Braun’s joining the SS in 1940 only to go on, in 1965, to passionately lecture segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace on racism This two-stream ...

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 ...

Wernher von Braun was also once a Nazi party member and SS officer, having served the Third Reich as an aerospace engineer. He designed the deadly V-2 rocket, the world’s first long-range ...

Nazi rocket scientists, including Wernher von Braun, surrendered to this Sheboygan man in May 1945 Wernher von Braun eventually became part of NASA, where he became the chief architect of the ...

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.

Wernher von Braun was also once a Nazi party member and SS officer, having served the Third Reich as an aerospace engineer. He designed the deadly V-2 rocket, the world’s first long-range ...

The familiar story of Wernher von Braun, the SS member turned US visionary, gets rehashed in Channel 4’s Nasa, Nazis and the Space Race ...