While Von Braun did not envision the space station as a Pan Am terminal, he did see the need for a fleet of piloted space cargo carriers to ferry up supplies and crews for the outpost itself ...

Von Braun at his desk at the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1960 ... Both the lack of propellants in her tanks and her station near the pole effectively prohibited any return to the orbit ...

“There were actually more V-2 rockets fired at Belgium than at England,” says Michael Neufeld, curator of the V-2 on view at the National Air and Space Museum and author of Von Braun: Dreamer ...

He was also the primary engineer of the Saturn V rocket, which launched the Apollo moon missions and the Skylab space station. Wernher von Braun was also once a Nazi party member and SS officer ...

Maria von Braun, widow of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and a prominent figure in America's early space program, died Jan.