Von Braun at his desk at the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1960, years after writing Project Mars. NASA Who else but Wernher von Braun would include a 62-page scientific appendix full of ...

In 1960, Columbia Pictures released a movie about NASA rocket scientist Wernher von Braun ... on view at the National Air and Space Museum and author of Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer ...

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 ...

Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi scientist who played ... or the details suppressed because of his value in the space race against the Soviets. His scientific achievements were widely celebrated ...

Headlines of the 1950s and '60s seemed to indicate that the Soviet Union was light-years ahead of the U.S. throughout much of the space race. But behind the scenes, a very different story was ...

More than 40 years ago, the world watched as Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. Yes, this is exactly what it would've been like when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon!

We’ve been stuck in low Earth orbit (LEO) ever since, with a return to deep space perpetually promised to be just a few years away. Falcon Heavy Payload Fairing But why? The short answer is ...