Von Puttkamer joined NASA in 1962 when Wernher von Braun invited him to join his rocket team based at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Von Braun and his team's work led to the ...

Asta von Tiesenhausen, the widow of leading Wernher von Braun rocket team member the late Georg von Tiesenhausen, died Aug. 1 after 96 “fascinating and often turbulent years,” her obituary says.

Dorothea Schlidt, Wernher von Braun's secretary during the World War II development of the first military rockets, has died in Huntsville at age 100.

The already thinning ranks of Wernher von Braun's German rocket team, which after the war helped put Americans on the moon, has grown even more sparse with the deaths of three scientists. Max ...

Wernher von Braun was head of the V-2 rocket development team. The rocket was used in the twilight hours of World War II. The rocket wizard was quoted in a 1952 Press clipping that if Germany had ...

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. Georg von Tiesenhausen, shown here with Liz Hurley, is now the last surviving member of the original von Braun team. HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - You may not be familiar with his name, but his imprint ...

While von Braun and some high-level members of his team faced questions about alleged Nazi ties, Holderer didn’t. “He was just never at that level of supervision,” Buckbee said.

Georg von Tiesenhausen left Germany in 1953 to become a leading rocket scientist for NASA. He passed away on June 3 at the age of 104 in Alabama.

Grau came to the United States after World War II with other German rocket scientists led by Wernher von Braun. Grau moved to Huntsville to work at Redstone Arsenal in 1950.