Tom Lehrer, the acclaimed musical satirist, has been in the limelight recently due to his passing on July 26, 2025, at the ...

Dr. Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) was one of the most important rocket developers and champions of space exploration in the twentieth century. As a youth he became enamored with the ...

Wernher von Braun was a German engineer who came to the United States at the end of World War II after working for the German war effort designing the V-2 combat rocket. Despite his past and ...

Wernher von Braun was enticed from Huntsville to Washington, D.C., where he was cut off from his team and turned into a walking ghost, virtually ignored as he made his way along the hallways of ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The U.S. Space & Rocket Center threw a huge party Friday night to commemorate what would have been the 100th birthday of rocket pioneer Dr. Wernher von Braun.

Today, Wernher von Braun is remembered as a rocket engineer who spent his career singlemindedly focused on enabling human spaceflight, first for Nazi Germany and then for the U.S.

During the 1960s, Dr. Wernher Von Braun led the Rocket Race in Huntsville. He helped engineer the Saturn V Rocket and because of his contributions, American astronauts were the first to walk on ...

Dr. Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) was one of the most important rocket developers and champions of space exploration in the twentieth century. As a youth he became enamored with the ...