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.

Suspecting that von Braun was a communist sympathizer, and that he planned to escape to England with the plans for the V-2 , Heinreich Himmler, chief of the German police, and one of Hitler's most ...

Von Braun was one of about 120 German scientists who, in a then-secret U.S. project known as Operation Paperclip, were taken to the U.S. to develop military technology.

M.G. Lord's latest book is "Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science." At the height of the space race, German-born rocket engineer Wernher von Braun -- a model for the title character of ...

Michael J. Neufeld, Wernher von Braun, the SS, and Concentration Camp Labor: Questions of Moral, Political, and Criminal Responsibility, German Studies Review, Vol ...

However, for some, von Braun's legacy is also weighted with his involvement in German war activities, as well as his status as a Sturmbannführer of the SS and former member of the Nazi party.

Rocket pioneers By Heike Hasenauer October 6, 2008 1 / 7 Show Caption + Dr. Wernher von Braun stands in front of a Saturn IB launch vehicle at Kennedy Space Flight Center.

Dr. von Braun was the famous rocket scientist who masterminded America’s victory in the space race. Von Braun celebrated his very own V-Day on July 20, 1969, when the U.S. put a man on the moon ...