If you've lived in Huntsville long, you've heard the legend of what Wernher von Braun and his rocket team brought to a sleepy cotton town. A university. A symphony. A planetarium. The Parkway. A ...

Depending on where you come from in the state of Alabama, you have likely either never heard of Wernher von Braun, or you think he is a modern day Columbus, responsible for guiding the United ...

In 1952, von Braun drove the 20 minutes to the all-black Alabama A&M College, to recruit a group of its science majors for a quixotic outreach campaign at a local white high school.

In this photo taken Sept. 2, 2008, engineer Oscar Carl Holderer, one of Wernher von Braun’s original “Operation Paperclip” team members, holds some technical drawings in his home shop behind ...

Retired Army Materiel Command Historian Michael Baker talks about Wernher von Braun and his team. He recounts the shock of the Sputnik launch, Toftoy “on his hands and knees begging” for ...

The 165-year-old historic Huntsville Depot is getting new attention from the city, which is launching a campaign for public ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The World War II secretary to German rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun has died in Alabama, where she spent much of her postwar life. Dorette “Dorothea” Hertha Kersten ...

Left: Wernher von Braun, in suit, with Nazi military brass, Peenemünde, Germany, March 21, 1941 (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1978-Anh.030-02 via Wikimedia Commons).

<p>HUNTSVILLE, Ala. &mdash; The World War II secretary to German rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun has died in Alabama, where she spent much of her postwar life.</p> ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The World War II secretary to German rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun has died in Alabama, where she spent much of her postwar life.