It should come as no surprise the father of the Saturn 5 rocket was thinking big. Von Braun envisioned huge spacecraft ... piloted space cargo carriers to ferry up supplies and crews for the ...

V-2 rocket launchpad in Germany, 1939. Wernher von Braun, the second of three children ... which had been purpose-built to ferry oversize cargo. Soon, the other stages began arriving by boat ...

A collection of some of the most important seminal documents of the Space Age are open for bids as rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun's "Man ... serviced by a fleet of ferry rockets with reusable ...

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 ...

Well-known as the leader of the American rocket team, which sought the launch astronauts into space, Wernher von Braun initially designed rockets for his native country of Germany during World War II.

Eisenhower in 1959 to transfer the rocket designer Wernher von Braun and his team from the U.S. Army to the just-created National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It was a turning point in ...

where they formed the vanguard of an American space program that built the Saturn V rocket, which sent nine crews toward the moon. In addition to Columbus, von Braun liked to invoke the Wright ...

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 ...

Magnus von Braun obeyed the order. He was the brother of Wernher, the German inventor of V-2 rockets. This encounter would begin the surrender of the famed rocket man Wernher von Braun ...

A book called "Mars Project" originated as a technical appendix to a science fiction novel, both of which were written by rocket science pioneer Wernher von Braun. The technical appendix was ...