Surrounded by beautifully sculpted spacecraft models and futuristic artwork, Wernher von Braun addressed the viewer ... Nasa/Getty Images After Nasa landed astronauts on the Moon, the agency's ...

The billions it will cost to build the planet’s first luxury hotel in low Earth orbit could be well spent if the developers can prove that private space construction is possible and profitable.

Learn about the pivotal role played by Wernher von Braun in saving the American space program and ushering in the Space Age.

Confronted with the growing power of Stalin’s U.S.S.R., the U.S. Government sanitized von Braun and other German scientists’ images in order to use their skills; to a large extent, the ...

This is the story of how scientist Werner von Braun heralded the birth of ballistic ... IN 1944, THERE IS NO TECHNOLOGY CAPABLE OF CAPTURING CLOSE-UP IMAGES OF THE ROCKET AT HIGH ALTITUDE.

We look at how Werner von Braun, a former rocket scientist of the Third Reich responsible for the V2 programme, played a leading role in NASA's planning. After groundbreaking success with the ...

As the Soviet Army closed in on the German rocket base in Peenemünde, the leader of the V-2 team, Wernher von Braun, decided he’d rather be captured by Americans than by Soviets. He and his ...

World’s first missile: The world’s first missile was developed by two German scientists, Walter Dornberger and Werner von Braun. During World War II, the German dictator Hitler ordered both of ...

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. By Michael J. Neufeld Several months ...

Von Braun didn’t say anything publicly about a human mission to Mars when he was in Muncie. A few years earlier, Mariner 4 had flown past the Red Planet, capturing and transmitting images that ...

These include the famed "Mars Project" by Werner von Braun, the "Mars Direct" mission architecture by Robert Zubrin and David Baker, NASA's Mars Design Reference Mission studies, and SpaceX's Mars ...