Von Braun envisioned a ferry rocket fleet, the main goal of which would have been the assembly and resupply of a 250-foot-wide wheel-shaped space station in near-polar 1075-mile-high orbit.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The U.S. Space & Rocket Center's Wernher von Braun exhibit will travel to Europe this summer, though the center will keep a permanent, though smaller, version of the exhibit ...

Early life. Wernher von Braun was born in Wirsitz, Germany, on March 23, 1912. The son of a Prussian baron, von Braun was the second of three sons of an aristocratic family.

(For more about von Braun's Nazi past, click here. After the war, von Braun, who orchestrated the surrender of 500 of his rocket scientists to Allied forces, went to work for the U.S. Army.

HUNTSVILLE, AL - The documentary "Wernher von Braun: The Rocket Man," premiered Monday at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center during the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon ...

The already thinning ranks of Wernher von Braun's German rocket team, which after the war helped put Americans on the moon, has grown even more sparse with the deaths of three scientists. Max ...

One of the greatest rocket scientists of all time would have been 100 years old on Friday (March 23), and his legacy is being celebrated in his adopted home town of Huntsville, Ala.

Wernher von Braun’s V-2 Rocket Although the Nazi “vengeance weapon” was a wartime failure, it ushered in the space age. Owen Edwards. August 2011. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!

In the 1960's the Von Braun rocket team had the only capability in the U.S. to conceive, design, develop, fabricate, test and launch an entirely new rocket system.

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.

Von Puttkamer joined NASA in 1962 when Wernher von Braun invited him to join his rocket team based at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Von Braun and his team's work led to 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.