The Von Braun Station is also not the only space hotel design in the works. Earlier in 2019, US-based space tech startup Orion Span released plans for a luxury space hotel called Aurora Station ...

The space hotel’s original name, Von Braun Station, was chosen because the concept was inspired by 60-year-old designs from Wernher von Braun, an aerospace engineer who pioneered rocket ...

Most of us know Wernher von Braun as the German V-2 pioneer who went from the Nazis to NASA. But did you know he published a scifi novel with detailed spacesuit schematics? Here are some examples.

The first commercial space hotel will be more like a cruise ship than Stanley Kubrick's sleek space station from 2001, says Tim Alatorre, senior design architect of the Von Braun Space Station.

This visualization gives a closer look at the design of the Von Braun "space hotel." (Image credit: The Gateway Foundation) According to Timothy Alatorre, the lead architect of this space station ...

Some of the most recognizable and iconic conceptual spacecraft designs ever proposed are those of Wernher von Braun’s space popularization campaign of the 1950s. This post will look at just one ...

A design similar to Von Braun's 1950s space station, with no escape vehicles and no way to navigate the space station without walking through everyone else's business. Gateway Foundation. 3 / 6.

Artist Chesley Bonestell worked from rocket scientist Wernher von Braun's original designs to paint this view of a space station hovering above Central America, together with a resuable shuttle ...

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 ...

Studying the rocket designs of the American father of rocketry, Robert Goddard, von Braun's team developed the V-2 rocket. ... Wernher von Braun quotes "We can lick gravity, ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Heinz Hilten, the architect and musician who helped design Redstone Arsenal for Dr. Wernher von Braun and co-founded the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, died March 1 at ...

But for von Braun, missile design was a prelude; outer space exploration awaited. After his surrender to the U.S. Army in Germany in 1945, ...