Depending on where you come from in the state of Alabama, you have likely either never heard of Wernher von Braun, or you think he is a modern day Columbus, responsible for guiding the United ...

Wernher von Braun led NASA'S development of the Saturn V rocket that took Apollo 11 to the Moon. His Nazi record was not widely known until after his death.

Dr. Wernher von Braun served as Marshall Space Flight Center's first director from July 1, 1960 until January 27, 1970, when he was appointed NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Plarning.

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 ...

Pivotal to the history of spaceflight, von Braun’s Nazi past makes him incredibly difficult to talk about.

The other day I ran into Dr. Wernher von Braun – in a very strange and unlikely place. Unless you are a boomer or early Gen Xer you may not even have heard about him. And maybe it’s because he ...

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

Nazi rocket scientists, including Wernher von Braun, surrendered to this Sheboygan man in May 1945 Wernher von Braun eventually became part of NASA, where he became the chief architect of the ...

The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has announced that Maria von Braun, the wife of Dr. Wernher von Braun, has passed away at 96.

That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun." In 1976, von Braun was considered for a Presidential Medal of Freedom by the Ford administration.

The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has announced that Maria von Braun, the wife of Dr. Wernher von Braun, has passed away at 96.