After von Braun’s visit was announced, some Ball State faculty openly opposed his invitation. Rumors began circulating of a ...

As college basketball season comes to a close, Jacksonville State and Liberty play for a Conference USA title and a trip to ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. ( WAFF) - Monday marked 55 years since the opening of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. A family that had a ...

Lucas, a NASA rocket scientist who helped shape the ... a position once held by his mentor Wernher von Braun. Dr. Lucas had contributed to the design of Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite ...

(Wood, Stephen / AP) In 1959, science writer Willy Ley sat down with Wernher von Braun to talk about space ... to aerospace powerhouse Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, designer ...

Former NASA administrators, others raise concerns about dismantling of DEI for space agency that worked hard to diversify workforce.

The strong-willed director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center ... when he had worked in Huntsville under Wernher von Braun. After becoming director of Marshall in 1974, he was known for ...

At NASA, some web pages that touted the diversity ... presented the idea to Dr. Wernher von Braun, the German engineer and director of the space program. “Von Braun said ‘No,’" Dwight ...

A robotic colony on Mars might seem like far-fetched science fiction, but so was the Moonshot. American Exceptionalism will rise again.

As Douglas Brinkley wrote in his book “American Moonshot,” Johnson “championed NASA as a potential bonanza ... of former Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun. The rocket technology originated ...