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 ...

Gerleman suggest in the May 22 Iowa View that Werner von Braun be an educational role model for Iowa and set ... the father of the German V2 rocket. These rockets were built by concentration ...

The Rocket City Astronomical Association's first president, elected in April 1955, was von ... Braun mistakenly went to the mountain first, Schmitz recalled, but jumped in his Mercedes model ...

HUNTSVILLLE, Alabama _ There's the public side and the personal side of German-turned-American rocket scientist Dr. Wernher von Braun ... There's a life-size model of a V-2 , an authentic captured ...

In 1950, von Braun and his rocket team were transferred from Ft ... discovered the radiation belt around the Earth. Holding a model of the satellite in celebration after its successful orbiting ...

Von Braun wasn’t the only Nazi rocket scientist recruited after the war. Operation Paperclip, a secret American program designed to “secure as much of the dark magic of the Nazi rocket program ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — 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.

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 ...

Von Braun holds a model of the V-2, his "baby ... Days later Rosenbaum found another new book, The Rocket Team, by Fred Ordway and a Marshall Space Flight Center writer, Mitchell Sharpe, an ...

Connie Pearson Von Braun Center (named for Dr. Wernher von Braun, the German rocket scientist who catapulted Huntsville into space exploration) is the undisputed hub for indoor entertainment in ...