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Dr. Werner von Braun was born March 23, 1912, and was crucial to the developement of rocketry and space science.

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.

Werner von Braun was a life-long champion of space travel and rocketry. In the 75 years since Machine Design began publication, here are some of the people who have changed the way we live.

The first time I ever saw Wernher von Braun he was on the Disneyland show and he was talking with Walt Disney about the possibility of rockets going into space. Square-jawed, broad-shouldered, and ...

Dr. Werner Von Braun was building his arsenal on and off Redstone Arsenal. His vision of rockets and space travel would propel the business of defense – unmatched anywhere.

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 ...

9 minute read Werner von Braun (1912-1977), the German-born American rocket engineer with model rockets. Hulton Deutsch—Corbis via Getty Images ...

In 1952, von Braun drove the 20 minutes to the all-black Alabama A&M College, to recruit a group of its science majors for a quixotic outreach campaign at a local white high school. One of the A&M ...

Wernher von Braun was born in Wirsitz, Germany, on March 23, 1912. The son of a Prussian baron, von Braun was the second of three sons of an aristocratic family.

He sought out Werner von Strucker to do just that. Von Strucker was persuaded, brutally, to work with Ward but failed in his first mission, an attempt to kill Andrew Garner.

How well did von Braun go about rebuilding a new life in the United States? He and about 120 of his associates were brought over as a group from Peenemunde.