It was 60 years ago to the week that the first V-2 missile landed on London, digging out a 10m-wide crater in Staveley Road, Chiswick.

Shirtsleeved, tousled, and bright-eyed with the dream that gave Germany its V-2 and the U.S. its first orbiting satellite, bull-shouldered Wernher von Braun paced the yellow-walled office in ...

We say despite the good some say Farrakhan accomplished and the technological advancements von Braun helped make possible, Farrakhan and von Braun are evil men who should be revered by no one.

More than 40 years in the making, the Saturn V rocket was born out of the bloodiest war in history but grew up to become humanity's crowning engineering achievement.

“Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department!” says Wernher von Braun – Tom Lehrer On Sunday, July 20, 1969, Neil ...

Wernher von Braun, considered the leading rocket expert in the U.S., was designing upper stages rockets that operate outside the earth’s atmosphere and wanted to use a fuel which would give the ...

He has received many awards, including the first Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History in 2015 at the AAS Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium.

Some were engineers and scientists, like Wernher von Braun, recruited by the U.S. government for their technological expertise.

The scientist had worked with Wernher von Braun on the V2 rockets, which were launched on London to devastating effect during the closing phases of World War II.

The team, led by Wernher von Braun, was proud to have engineered the rockets for the Blitz that nearly defeated England. Its wider ambitions included missiles that could fly a lot farther, with ...

A spectacular sculpture leads to an untold history in weaponry at the site of the new FDA campus.