Californian company The Gateway Foundation has released plans for the Von Braun Station, a cruise ship-style hotel floating among the stars.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Studying the rocket designs of the American father of rocketry, Robert Goddard, von Braun's team developed the V-2 rocket.

Pursuing this goal, in the 1930s and 1940s von Braun led the design of the Nazi V-2 rockets, the world’s first long-range guided missiles.

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 ...

Full-service kitchens and bars, movie screenings, and even interiors with natural materials and a cozy color palette sound like the trappings of any nice hotel. But future guests of the Von Braun R… ...