To nail the presentation, NASA brought von Braun, its most celebrated engineer, to do the talking. After all, they were ...

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.

In 1954, Walt Disney was struggling to imagine tomorrow. Disneyland was set to open the following year and would be divided ...

Wernher von Braun, a former member of the SS who rebranded himself as an all-American hero in the 1960s - SuperStock / Alamy Stock Photo Nasa, Nazis and the Space Race (Channel 4) is a strong, if ...

May 2 (UPI) --The NASA team behind the James Webb Space Telescope has been awarded the Wernher von Braun Memorial Award by the National Space Society. The award is given every two years and was ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

The already thinning ranks of Wernher von Braun's German rocket team, which after the war helped put Americans on the moon, has grown even more sparse with the deaths of three scientists. Max ...

Von Braun also gained prestige with his brilliant work at NASA. Because of this and his media exposure, the rocket scientist was well known in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s.

NASA has a full collection of “Weekly Notes” von Braun wrote during the 1960s and 1970s.