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 ...

In 1945, sensing defeat in World War II, von Braun and his team surrendered to the Allied forces and arrived in the U.S. By 1950, von Braun was moved to Huntsville where he would continue to ...

The book, titled The Mars Project, was published in 1952 (English translation published in 1953) by famed Nazi scientist turned NASA engineer Wernher von Braun.

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.

Von Braun's singular focus was rockets—and his history on racial issues in Alabama was uneven, at best, and arguably exemplified NASA’s broader conflicts on the issue.

These illustrations by Fred Freeman show Wernher von Braun’s concept for a space shuttle in the 1950s. The illustrations can be found in the book Visions of Spaceflight: Images from the Ordway ...

The claim is based on a portion of the 1953 book “Mars Project” by aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, who led development of rocket technology for the Nazi party in Germany and later ...