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 ...

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.

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 ...

Dr. Wernher von Braun, the German rocket scientist who went from developing Nazi weapons to helping get NASA off the ground for the U.S., wrote a novel in the years after World War II speculating ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The U.S. Space & Rocket Center's Wernher von Braun exhibit will travel to Europe this summer, though the center will keep a permanent, though smaller, version of the exhibit ...

In November 1937, Wernher von Braun officially joined the Nazi Party. Not joining “would have meant that I would have had to abandon the work of my life,” von Braun later insisted. In 1940 ...

Rocket pioneers By Heike Hasenauer October 6, 2008 1 / 7 Show Caption + Dr. Wernher von Braun stands in front of a Saturn IB launch vehicle at Kennedy Space Flight Center.

Engineer Oscar Carl Holderer, one of Wernher von Braun’s original rocket team members, in his home workshop in Huntsville, Ala., in 2008. He helped design the rocket that took astronauts to 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 ...