As described in Von Braun's The Mars Project, published first in 1952 in a German spaceflight journal and in the U.S. the following year as a slim book, the ferry rocket's first stage, with broad ...

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 ...

DETAILS: "Rocket City," presented at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Friday through May 18. ... ASF's 'Rocket City' explores Huntsville's introduction to Werner von Braun.

Wernher von Braun's archive of signed technical drawings, schematics, orbital diagrams, and mathematical calculations related to his efforts to sell an ambitious space program to the American ...

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. She was 96. Born Maria von Quistorp in ...

In 1944, German rocket scientists developed the world’s first guided missiles and used them against Belgium, France and England. Those scientists surrendered to U.S. forces on May 2, 1945 — 80 ...

Well-known as the leader of the American rocket team, which sought the launch astronauts into space, Wernher von Braun initially designed rockets for his native country of Germany during World War ...

Dr. Werner von Braun was born March 23, 1912, and was crucial to the developement of rocketry and space science. ... In 1950, von Braun and his rocket team were transferred from Ft. Bliss, ...

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 ...

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.